clothesline
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I use a clothesline on the balcony and a laundromat nearby in case I have an urgent need to dry things.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
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
I use a clothesline made of four shoelaces and aim my three fans to dry everything.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2023
Each tiny sign was perfectly formed, with little flags and short tails at the ends of each stroke, resting on invisible horizontal strings like pins perched on a clothesline.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
In the covered outdoor corridors, Irhil and the other families have appropriated the space, setting up planters on ledges, a dish-washing station in a classroom sink, and clotheslines between the columns.
From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025
The long, thin spaghetti shape, he says, was an especially efficient way to dry the pasta, by hanging the strands on structures similar to clotheslines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 2025
A strip of a mud-floored foyer packs in a kitchen, a few plastic chairs, two rope beds and fraying clotheslines.
From BBC ● May 8, 2024
Dozens of tents line the sidewalk outside the Sheraton Gateway and Four Points Sheraton LAX; over the tents dangle string lights and clotheslines festooned with laundry, including lacy lingerie and baby onesies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
Shirts on nearby clotheslines snapping in the wind.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
