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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • But then again, that plotline may offer the greatest thrills.
    BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2021
  • 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 plotline seems to reflect the life story of its author, who was born in a small town at the foot of the Ural Mountains and now lives in Germany.
    Washington Post Staff, Washington Post, 16 June 2023
  • The plotline angered some fans, prompting Gillies to write the letter in response.
    Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Something that excites me about the Kai and Amelia plotline, at this point, is that there seems to be a lot of tenderness there.
    Marisa Roffman, Variety, 11 Nov. 2021
  • But continuing to make this charade a plotline is a waste of all our eyes and ears.
    Shamira Ibrahim, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2021
  • But as Pray in this episode shows, that doesn’t detract from Pose extracting all the drama out of such a plotline.
    Manuel Betancourt, Vulture, 3 May 2021
  • The spirit of Don Quixote presides over this buddy-trip plotline.
    Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 21 June 2020
  • Jamie’s plotline has been his worst in the series’ history.
    Paul Tassi, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
  • There has been no details of the plotline for season four or when that season might debut.
    Rodney Ho, ajc, 25 Dec. 2021
  • An 818 plotline has yet to be woven into the show, but that moment may arrive soon.
    Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Does this she-cat plotline, ending in the inevitable catfight, really stand the test of time?
    Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2020
  • The might of the Disney budget boost could be seen in multiple scenes, but we are also told the streamer was keen to be across plotlines from the off.
    Max Goldbart, Deadline, 17 July 2024
  • This is the biggest hint yet that her character might be taking over the plotline of the dragonseed Nettles in Fire & Blood.
    Lauren Morgan, EW.com, 22 July 2024

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