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
“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
We’d clip them to a kind of clothesline that took them down to the composing room.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024
One day we sat on the grass after lunch, listening to the wind snap the sheets Rosaleen had hung on the clothesline.
From "The Secret Life of Bees" by Sue Monk Kidd
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
