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
Inside the Airbnb, he was surprised to find a clothesline instead of a dryer.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 30, 2025
Eleven-year-old Arakel is holding his cardboard model of a house with a retractable clothesline.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 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
Outside, the yard was an ocean of green grass, punctuated only by a clothesline, a barbecue, a hedge along one fence, and an assortment of fruit trees and vegetable patches.
From "Ugly" by Robert Hoge
