Sentence examples for as a plot device from inspiring English sources

Deploying flatulence as a plot device takes nerve.

It was used as a plot device in a short story titled "Mousetrap".

I'm not sure it works as a plot device in a three-part TV series.

The character that's come to define him was born, Mr. Grammer said, "as a plot device".

Below, nine wordsmiths created brief scenarios evoking a cocktail or requiring one as a plot device.

"Don't you think it's getting a bit repetitive as a plot device?" he asked.

Instead their Germanness serves merely as a plot device to keep Felix out of the military.

The animated film used passengers' indifference towards safety messages as a plot device.

As a symbolic battleground of family life, it has often come in handy as a plot device.

Danielle's pregnancy was used as a plot-device to bring the two closer together.

But when, as in Silver Linings Playbook, there's an attempt to portray real mental illness as a plot-device, it's hard not to get thrown, just a little.