subplot in English

noun
1
a subordinate plot in a play, novel, or similar work.
He allows the audience to get comfortable in his subplots and controlling plot; we are on the inside of many of the jokes, all of them, in fact, except for one.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "subplot" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "subplot", or refer to the context using the word "subplot" in the English Dictionary.

1. There could be an even more interesting subplot as well.

2. The story of the Park Central sale also has an intriguing subplot.

3. The first scene of the subplot also opposes and discriminates its protagonists.

4. Their story is counterpointed by a subplot involving housewife Edda Barends, who is kidnapped.

5. So that Ron subplot was secondary to the central drive of the story.

6. A subplot plays in the background, where two men meet, light a cigarette and separate.

7. A subplot featuring a female FBI agent is Clumsily grafted onto the main story

8. The film does have one serendipitous subplot: the peddling of offshore oil-drilling leases.

9. What evolved was Passport to Pimlico via Romeo and Juliet with a subplot of bigotry.

10. A subplot in Gerald Durrell's first book, The Overloaded Ark, centres on his attempts to secure an Angwantibo for zoological study

11. Such a letter is termed a "Bellerophontic" letter; one such figures in a subplot of Shakespeare's Hamlet, bringing offstage death to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern

12. Not as predictable as Brolin's acting, but predictable nonetheless, which may be why the filmmakers insert a romantic subplot involving not one, but two spirited, adventuresome women."

13. Braggartly knowing but for utilizing in the Re-birth of African Aziboist Concepts and Psycho-Cultural-Political Orientations for the African-Centered: Part of a Non-Eurocentric World Psychology (Part 1) The subplot was similarly played for laughs, with the Braggartly Parolles mocked by the outrageous accents of his tormentors.

14. Hook, has argued persuasively that the ballad Antedates the play and was probably Peele's source for the Queen Elinor subplot.(13) The indications are that Peele, not the ballad, was in turn the source of the Morindos novella, in that a factor common to the play and the novella, but missing from the ballad, is,the King's enforced absence at the.