How to Use plotter in a Sentence
plotter
noun- The police caught the plotters of the bank heist.
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Crowds pour into the streets in support of the coup plotters.
— Nicholas Bariyo, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2023 -
Two years later, the prison-break plotters still haven’t been caught.
— Barbara Vandenburgh, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2019 -
The plotters are hanged and Mordechai's good deed is recorded in the Book of Chronicles.
— Rabbi Avi Weiss, Jewish Journal, 20 Feb. 2018 -
Gen. Semih Terzi, who was one of the most prominent plotters and was killed during the coup attempt.
— Tim Arango, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2016 -
And in nearly all of the attacks, the plotter planned to use firearms in the attack itself and 51% had planned to use explosives.
— Luke Barr, ABC News, 30 Mar. 2021 -
The number one choice for food plotters in the South is warm-season annuals.
— Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 28 May 2020 -
Adams is a fine writer and expert plotter, and to write Kane’s bad sentences takes a special skill.
— Oline H. Cogdill, Sun Sentinel, 6 Apr. 2023 -
Hitler’s command was that the plotters should be killed like animals.
— Elisabeth Braw, Newsweek, 6 Aug. 2014 -
The Turkish government regards them as coup plotters and wants Athens to hand them over.
— Staff Report, Houston Chronicle, 8 June 2018 -
The senior, who'd attempted to escape via the main plotter's pickup truck was detained and faced a large fine.
— Chron.com Staff, Houston Chronicle, 14 Apr. 2020 -
Some accomplices who turned in the game pieces were required to split the cash awarded with the plotters of the operation but were stuck with huge tax bills.
— Erin Jensen, USA TODAY, 24 Jan. 2020 -
Many of the kidnapping plotters attended the armed protest at the Michigan state capitol.
— Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2024 -
One of his college projects was working on a program to compose music, printing out the scores on a plotter.
— Jon Pareles, New York Times, 8 June 2022 -
The United States was at war with al-Qaida at the time of the 9/11 attacks, the military judge presiding at the trial of the alleged plotters has ruled.
— Carol Rosenberg, miamiherald, 26 Apr. 2018 -
Of 33 cases where the plotter had a specific date in mind, more than 60 percent were planning to act the same day as the report or within two days.
— Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2021 -
Around 250 people died standing up to the soldiers who took part in the uprising, and thousands of alleged plotters were rounded up the next day.
— Lauren Said-Moorhouse and Onur Cakir, CNN, 14 Sep. 2017 -
In between, the lead plotters decided to kill Moïse on July 4, but pushed the plan back for three days, according to the indictment.
— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 21 Feb. 2024 -
Nearly 500 alleged coup plotters went on trial beginning this week, some facing the prospect of life in prison.
— Shashank Bengali, latimes.com, 4 Aug. 2017 -
Over the next few years, maneuvers similar to this initial grift netted as much as $4.5 billion for the plotters.
— Andrew Cockburn, Harper's Magazine, 27 Apr. 2020 -
Six plotters are arrested by German police for planning a knife attack on the Berlin Half Marathon.
— Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 9 Apr. 2018 -
Big plans with multiple plotters who chat and can be monitored are easier to foil than low-tech ones by lone wolves.
— The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017 -
She was accused of using a cryptoprogram like that deployed by the coup plotters, though the program was in use by Turks throughout the nation.
— Hollie McKay, Fox News, 13 Apr. 2018 -
The 617-page indictment against them reveals that the plotters' ideology is every bit as bizarre as the plot itself.
— The Week Uk, theweek, 2 June 2024 -
The government says the coup-plotters used Akinci air base as their headquarters.
— Burhan Ozbilici, The Seattle Times, 1 Aug. 2017 -
In any case, the security services have profited from the war and have little incentive to throw in their lot with coup plotters.
— Andrea Kendall-Taylor, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2023 -
Many of them face charges of terrorism or complicity with coup plotters.
— David Gauthier-Villars, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2018 -
Now], investigators are trying to find out whether a network of plotters extended all the way to Libya.
— James Hohmann, Washington Post, 26 May 2017 -
The plotters, assembled from campuses across Tehran, needed an inside plan of the embassy.
— Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2019 -
In seeking Moïse’s overthrow, the plotters sought several avenues.
— Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 7 July 2024
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