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
Footage obtained by TMZ shows Sweeney climbing up the Hollywood sign to help string up a clothesline of assorted bras across the familiar landmark.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 26, 2026
Eleven-year-old Arakel is holding his cardboard model of a house with a retractable clothesline.
From BBC • Apr. 27, 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
That night when I went to bed, I laid there in the dark and pictured a clothesline full of somebody else’s troubles.
From "Wish" by Barbara O'Connor
