Sentence examples for plotting device from inspiring English sources

So you know early on exactly what's coming from this classic plotting device: each man will at some point be moved to get up and tell his story, with the newcomer (Kieran, played by Roderick Hill) somehow acting as a catalyst to get each to reveal more than he ever has before.

Or just a plot device?

Just a mysterious plot device".

She is a rhetorical plot device.

Hacks are a great plot device.

The writers have turned a penis into a plot device.

Or does it feel like a plot device?

There's no lazier plot device than Christmas.

Best plot device ever, it saves a ton of exposition.

It was the plot device that powered a preordained procession.

Not everyone took this plot device at face value, though.