clothesline
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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
I use a clothesline made of four shoelaces and aim my three fans to dry everything.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2023
If she hung a black petticoat on her clothesline, it meant that another member of the ring, Caleb Brewster, a blacksmith and boatman, had arrived in his boat.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
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 work, with a handsome design by Mr. Loquasto, features what look like sheets of pewter leaf hanging from clotheslines, beneath and through which eight dancers in dusky-hued unitards come and go.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 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
Left behind among the piles of trash are clotheslines made from barbed wire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
I fled down alleyways as dark and stifling as the gullets of dragons, through sizzling sparks and palls of smoke, under clotheslines fluttering with singed sheets.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
