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Discover Ludwig"propel the plot" is correct and commonly used in written English
It is usually used to describe the action or events in a story that move it forward and keep the audience interested. Here is an example: "The unexpected arrival of the mysterious stranger helped to propel the plot forward and added an exciting twist to the story."
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"Audiences want dance and music to propel the plot forward".
His prose is doggedly functional with short sentences and chapters relentlessly working to propel the plot.
In "The Leopard," Harry's relationship with Olav, the cancer-stricken father he loves but could never connect with, helps propel the plot.
On hand to propel the plot was another character, a psychiatrist who draws out Melinda through hypnosis and then falls for her.
That's partly because their consequences propel the plot of this book, which combines a road novel and a crime novel with a chronicle of a dying town.
Schemes and sabotage by both sides -- as well as police corruption, a lusty Hollywood actress and a mob kidnapping -- propel the plot.
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Current technology often propels the plot.
In "Across the Universe" the music propels the plot along.
And because the choreography propelled the plot forward".
No matter: Eddard's death propelled the plot forward.
The other highlight is the diminutive Tom Hollander, as the hapless Secretary of State who propels the plot.
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