How to Use plotline in a Sentence

plotline

noun

• The whole plotline was that there was this new clean-tech startup.
  — J. Clara Chan, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2023
• Yet abandon all hope, ye who grasp for a plotline to hold on to here.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 June 2022
• Schiff must know that there are two plotlines left open to him in this drama.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 22 Nov. 2019
• That plotline stalled for a few years while the star was set back by injuries.
  — Dave Campbell, The Seattle Times, 12 Nov. 2018
• The adult plotlines in this episode also carry on this mash-up of tones.
  — Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2025
• Yes, a small plotline in the series had been that they were married with kids.
  — Danielle Tullo, House Beautiful, 1 June 2018
• Yeah, this is one of the big plotlines where the cracks in the adaptation show.
  — Constance Grady, Vox, 20 Nov. 2024
• The man has made a film or two, and a lot of his brilliance still shines through the sheer plotlines.
  — Ian Stokes, Space.com, 12 June 2026
• But then again, that plotline may offer the greatest thrills.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2021
• The second book carries over none of the plotlines from the first, but shares its form.
  — Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 2019
• Well the non-Evos of the world would disagree, which is the main plotline of the show.
  — Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 29 Aug. 2022
• And here is where the Mondrich plotline neatly comes to a head!
  — Christina Grace Tucker, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
• Geminis are known to stir the pot and get the plotline moving.
  — Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2024
• Social media is the lens for a lot of the show’s biggest bits and even plotlines.
  — Phillip MacIak, The New Republic, 9 June 2023
• Did that background influence the plotline of this film at all?
  — Chloe Schama, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2020
• There are so many questions that need answers and so many plotlines that deserve to be tied up.
  — Allie Gemmill, Teen Vogue, 16 Oct. 2019
• The most compelling plotlines never made it out of the pods, and from there, the season was toast.
  — Anusha Praturu, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
• But continuing to make this charade a plotline is a waste of all our eyes and ears.
  — Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2021
• All of the big hitters have made it, with star names narrating the plotlines that are about to get heavy.
  — Philip Buckingham, New York Times, 28 June 2026
• An official plotline for the movie hasn’t been announced yet, though the comics could tease what’s in store.
  — Kelsie Gibson, Peoplemag, 29 July 2024
• But a single football game does not have the hour-by-hour plotlines of a Game 7.
  — John Romano, The Orlando Sentinel, 2 May 2026
• Celtic was in need of a target, and Scottish soccer in need of a plotline.
  — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2021
• An official plotline for the movie hasn’t been announced yet, though the comics could tease what’s in store.
  — Kelsie Gibson, PEOPLE, 20 Dec. 2025
• Yet those are common plotlines in movies and TV shows about reporters.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
• Once Claire and Sofia make it to safety, the plotline is pretty much at its end.
  — Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 19 July 2023
• Absent is a plotline that plumbs the anxieties of the closet.
  — Brandon Tensley, CNN, 2 Dec. 2021
• Still, there’s a sense that the story has expanded to fill the space, with plotlines for all and crazy side trips (snakes!
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 4 June 2026
• In fact, sources indicate Urban feared he would be mocked due to the film’s plotline.
  — Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 9 Oct. 2025
• In fact, sources indicate Urban feared he would be mocked due to the film’s plotline.
  — Stylecaster Editors, StyleCaster, 11 Nov. 2025
• And the rest — at least for fans of the show’s gritty style and mind-bending plotline — was history.
  — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 8 Apr. 2020