clothesline
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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
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
Still curious, Captain Cook started walking round and round the tripod, till the clothesline, the penguin, Mr. Popper and the tripod were all tangled up.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
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
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
People had raised flags and put up clotheslines between them.
From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda
