clothesline

Example Sentences

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“So, you know, I didn’t see it until it was too late. It just clotheslined me and, boom, knocked me off the bike.... The bike kept going, and you know how that works out.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2023

Driving to the bucket is no longer a one-way ticket to getting clotheslined.

From Washington Times • Jan. 3, 2023

But it does answer our burning follow-up about whether a raptor is clever enough to avoid being clotheslined after a quick bit of thinking by Bryce Dallas Howard’s Claire Dearing.

From The Verge • Apr. 29, 2022

Gone were his days as a World Wrestling Entertainment personality who, in 2007, clotheslined WWE Chairman Vince McMahon and faux-pounded him, ringside, before shaving him bald in a viral pay-per-view moment.

From Washington Post • May 26, 2019

A tyke in a Joseph Addai jersey got clotheslined by his siblings and ran to the sideline clutching his head; his parents imitated the Browns training staff and sent him back onto the field.

From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2012