clothesline
Example Sentences
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In even a light breeze the polyester billows, like a bedsheet on a clothesline, providing enough shade for a family.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 23, 2026
Eleven-year-old Arakel is holding his cardboard model of a house with a retractable clothesline.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 2025
If time was like a clothesline, I wanted to do it for as long as ever.
From Salon • May 22, 2024
We’d clip them to a kind of clothesline that took them down to the composing room.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024
If a bird pooped on a clean white sheet while flying over the clothesline, that meant bad luck.
From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye
