Sentences with plot
plot
P p - Garden plot, cemetery plot
- To plot someone's destruction
- Plot is used of a secret, usually evil, project or scheme, the details of which have been carefully worked out [the plot to deprive him of his inheritance failed]; intrigue, implying more intricate scheming, suggests furtive, underhanded maneuvering, often of an illicit nature [the intrigues at the royal court]; machination stresses deceit and cunning in devising plots or schemes intended to harm someone [the machinations of the villain]; conspiracy suggests a plot in which a number of people plan and act together secretly for an unlawful or harmful purpose [a conspiracy to seize the throne]; cabal suggests a small group of political intriguers
- Security forces have uncovered a plot to overthrow the government.
- Prosecutors in the trial allege the defendants plotted to overthrow the government. [VERB to-infinitive]
- Yesterday's meeting was intended to plot a survival strategy for the party. [VERB noun]
- I thought that I'd buy myself a small plot of land and build a house on it.
- We plot about eight points on the graph. [VERB noun]
- We were trying to plot the course of the submarine. [VERB noun]
- They used a computer to plot the movements of everyone in the building. [VERB noun]
- A plot to overthrow the government
- A vegetable plot
- A plot to overthrow the government.
- A garden plot; burial plot.
- A house on a two-acre plot.
- According to the property plot, there should be a lamp stage left.
- Target plot.
- To plot mutiny.
- The stage manager hadn't plotted the set changes until one day before the dress rehearsal.