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
Leaves on the trees rustled, and our clothes waved and snapped on the clothesline.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
Among the tanks, pipes, and clotheslines, each family has carved out its own space.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
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
The boy helped his mother carry more and more baskets of laundry to and from the big houses; the clotheslines grew longer and longer.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
