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Discover LudwigThe phrase "a plot line" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the storyline or narrative structure of a book, movie, or other forms of storytelling.
Example: "The plot line of the novel revolves around a young woman's journey of self-discovery."
Alternatives: "a storyline" or "a narrative arc".
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But is perpetual war any more coherent a plot line?
Normally that would undermine any real suspense such a plot line could create.
And the flyleaf leads the reader to anticipate a plot line that simply doesn't materialise.
It is a plot line as flat as the light at the start of Monday's race.
The purpose was to provide a plot line for an hour of self-referential nostalgia.
For a plot line, the dead Plaids, out of a time warp, relive the past.
Last season it based a plot line on the Pat Tillman scandal.
And that was actually the leftovers from Aaron Sorkin, a plot line that he had created.
All of his hundreds of characters have grace notes of history and personality that advance a plot line.
The machinations in Mr. Caperton's case resembled a plot line in John Grisham's courtroom drama "The Appeal".
(The plot echoes a plot line from "Mad Men," about how a secretary, Peggy Olson, became a copywriter).
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