Sentence examples for counterplot from inspiring English sources
The word 'counterplot' is correct and usable in written English
It is used to describe a secret plan or scheme to oppose or thwart another plot. Example: The cunning spy devised a counterplot to sabotage the enemy's plans and save his country from invasion.
noun
A plot made in opposition to another; a counterploy.
Plot and counterplot, harem intrigue, and murder brought Artaxerxes III to the throne in 359 bc.
The former, with its coarse, farcical counterplot, was considered one of the cleverest comedies of its time.
Hastings was certainly not guilty of procuring a judicial murder, but recent research does suggest that he knew in advance of the counterplot against Nandakumar.
The greater part of the romance is occupied by plot and counterplot: Mark and the courtiers seeking to entrap the lovers, who escape the snares laid for them until finally Mark gets what seems proof of their guilt and resolves to punish them.
Winston Churchill, a keen aficionado of wartime deception, described the spying game as "tangle within tangle, plot and counterplot, ruse and treachery, cross and double-cross, true agent, false agent, double agent, gold and steel, the bomb, the dagger and the firing party... interwoven in many a texture so intricate as to be incredible and yet true".
There's the wealthy suitor who threatens to snatch his beloved Yasuko away from him, and the clever physicist, a friend of the detective investigating the case, who devises a counterplot for trapping the mathematician at his own game.
Daily, he became more convinced that he was involved in the counterplot--managed by the British agents & the C.I.A.--but he didn't know how he was involved or how to translate the clues that turned up.
Around 1600 it became important as an expensive commercial spice of the Western world and was the subject of Dutch plots to keep prices high and of English and French counterplots to obtain fertile seeds for transplantation.
The Gothic tales and thrillers that Alcott published pseudonymously between 1863 and 1869 were collected and republished as Behind a Mask (1975) and Plots and Counterplots (1976), and an unpublished Gothic novel written in 1866, A Long Fatal Love Chase, was published in 1995.
One cannot but admire Schiller's ambition, but rife with plots and counterplots, Fiesco's storyline involves more twists than a cat's cradle and too many nods to Shakespeare.
Having schemed, fought and suffered countless snubs and counterplots to win the job, this prime minister was never going to go gently.
