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
After waters rapidly rose in West Sumatra and submerged his home, Meri Osman said he was "swept away by the current" and clung onto a clothesline until he was rescued.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025
“One of the things I did to myself is I didn't want the joke attached to time. 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
Quickly he slipped up a cobbled street, turned into a garden, stripped off his uniform and hung it on a clothesline.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
