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

If time was like a clothesline, I wanted to do it for as long as ever.

From Salon • May 22, 2024

Perhaps he had been unwise in tying one end of the clothesline to his own wrist.

From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater