clothesline
Example Sentences
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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
We’d clip them to a kind of clothesline that took them down to the composing room.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024
Home, where he could cradle the new baby pigs in the barn, climb the trees at the edge of the woods, throw snowballs at the posts of the clothesline.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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