clothesline

After waters rapidly rose in West Sumatra and submerged his home, Meri Osman said he was "swept away by the current" and clung onto a clothesline until he was rescued.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2025

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

Inside the Airbnb, he was surprised to find a clothesline instead of a dryer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 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

In their haste the residents practically carried Boori Ma up the stairs to the roof, where they planted her on one side of the clothesline and started screaming at her from the other.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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

Women hang up bedding on clotheslines in the morning to keep them dry during the day, then lay them on the ground at night to sleep.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024

Their clotheslines are strung with underpants, nighties, socks, a display of soiled intimacy, which they have washed and rinsed, plunging their hands into the gray curdled water.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood