plot line

noun

Usually plot lines. dialogue that advances the plot, as in a play or motion-picture script.

First recorded in 1955–60

The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president.

In the Sky-Sarah plot line, says Gallagher, an important transformation occurs: "A guy and a doll save their souls."

Specifically, the plot line where that one girl dated that one black guy.

The beauty of the progressive narrative was that it provided a natural plot line, established by the minute, the hour, the day.

Polonium is also at the center of a major plot line currently playing out on the daytime soap opera General Hospital.

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