How to Use plotline in a Sentence

plotline

noun
  • Well the non-Evos of the world would disagree, which is the main plotline of the show.
    Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 29 Aug. 2022
  • So far, specifics of the plotline have not been revealed.
    Kelly Wynne, PEOPLE.com, 11 Jan. 2022
  • Most of the show’s plotlines have been kept top secret.
    Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 18 Jan. 2024
  • The second book carries over none of the plotlines from the first, but shares its form.
    Christopher Beha, Harper's magazine, 10 Mar. 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 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
  • From the Flat Iron Last night’s hair-straightening plotline cuts to the core of who Ilana is, and what the show is all about.
    Wendy Goodman, The Cut, 14 Sep. 2017
  • 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
  • Yes, a small plotline in the series had been that they were married with kids.
    Danielle Tullo, House Beautiful, 1 June 2018
  • Geminis are known to stir the pot and get the plotline moving.
    Lisa Stardust, Peoplemag, 6 Sep. 2024
  • There’s a certain price to be paid, though: The plotline tends to get buried under an avalanche of gloss.
    Dominic P. Papatola, Twin Cities, 26 July 2019
  • Once Claire and Sofia make it to safety, the plotline is pretty much at its end.
    Olivia Evans, Women's Health, 19 July 2023
  • One of the saddest moments in the film is the open end to Sarah (Linney) and Karl's (Santoro) plotline.
    Maggie Malach, Peoplemag, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Fans could hardly take this new plotline more to heart.
    Pamela Rafalow Grossman, Essence, 16 Mar. 2022
  • Celtic was in need of a target, and Scottish soccer in need of a plotline.
    New York Times, 29 Jan. 2021
  • The Greyjoys Like Dorne, the Greyjoy plotline was changed in big and fundamental ways.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 July 2022
  • This plotline of Gizelle teaching Grace how to drive is duller than Robyn and Gizelle’s podcast.
    Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 20 Sep. 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • But then again, that plotline may offer the greatest thrills.
    BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2021
  • And in the months leading up to our Best of Beauty Awards, the plotlines are as thick as the competition.
    Elizabeth Siegel, Allure, 1 Sep. 2018
  • Absent is a plotline that plumbs the anxieties of the closet.
    Brandon Tensley, CNN, 2 Dec. 2021
  • But the bigger news—in my opinion—was how much the trailer reveals in regards to the plotline.
    Jessica Radloff, Glamour, 9 July 2023
  • Yet those are common plotlines in movies and TV shows about reporters.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 29 Oct. 2023
  • Tanya and Portia’s plotline is the most delightfully twisty of the lot.
    Naomi Fry, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2022
  • Did that background influence the plotline of this film at all?
    Chloe Schama, Vogue, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The running plotline was that Michael (Steve Carell) had to fire someone on the staff by the end of October due to cutbacks.
    Omar Sanchez, EW.com, 15 Jan. 2020
  • The cop plotline was bad and it was resolved in the most convenient, ridiculous way imaginable.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024

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