plot line

noun

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

Origin of plot line

First recorded in 1955–60

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

There were too many main characters, too many competing plot lines.
How In the Heights went from a student musical to one of the summer’s biggest movies | Constance Grady | June 11, 2021 | Vox
In 2017, Netflix started releasing interactive TV series and films that allow viewers to click on their screens to affect character decisions and plot lines.
Netflix is seriously flirting with a push into video games | Adam Epstein | May 21, 2021 | Quartz
Their divorce became a plot line on the show and the rumor reemerged.
Thank you, Kordell Stewart, for thoughtful response to ‘the rumor’ | Kevin Naff | February 5, 2021 | Washington Blade
The Expanse’s plot lines sometimes seem too fantastical to him, he said.
Elon Musk busts Clubhouse limit, fans stream to YouTube, he switches to interviewing Robinhood CEO | Mike Butcher | February 1, 2021 | TechCrunch
The series, rife with cliche character tropes and predictable plot lines, he contends, offers little worth looking up from your phone to take in.
Is watching TV actually a good way to relax? | Corinne Iozzio | January 27, 2021 | Popular-Science

The first black president was a hotter plot line than the first woman president.
Don’t Run for President, Hillary. Become a ‘Post-President’ Instead | Tina Brown | May 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
In the Sky-Sarah plot line, says Gallagher, an important transformation occurs: "A guy and a doll save their souls."
New York’s Greatest Show Or How They Did Not Screw Up ‘Guys and Dolls’ | Ross Wetzsteon | April 6, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Specifically, the plot line where that one girl dated that one black guy.
‘Downton Abbey’ Finale Review: The Depressing Demise of a Once-Great Show | Kevin Fallon | February 24, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
The beauty of the progressive narrative was that it provided a natural plot line, established by the minute, the hour, the day.
The Night Vince Lombardi Lay Awake Brooding Over a 49-0 Win | W.C. Heinz | January 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Polonium is also at the center of a major plot line currently playing out on the daytime soap opera General Hospital.
Radioactive Revelations Raise the Question: Who Killed Arafat? | Maysoon Zayid | November 8, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST

Browse