plot
Example Sentences
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The plot basically sticks to the first seven chapters of the 100-chapter novel, which concerns an engagingly impulsive monkey who obtains superpowers and, to protect his monkey community, enjoys one wily adventure after another.
From Los Angeles Times
It means the new owners can plot an immediate transfer plan next summer to recover the club from League One - which is an inevitability.
From BBC
She was found guilty of influencing her aunt, Bangladesh's ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, to secure a plot of land for her family in the outskirts of the capital Dhaka, a claim she strongly denies.
From BBC
Surely, someone has made a hash of the plot.
From Los Angeles Times
In most refugee settlements, the government has run out of land to allocate to migrants for crop cultivation, and in at least one, refugees have come to blows over the plots that are available.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.