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
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
“Can I have a few yards of clothesline, please, Mamma?” asked Mr. Popper.
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 long, thin spaghetti shape, he says, was an especially efficient way to dry the pasta, by hanging the strands on structures similar to clotheslines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 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
Shirts on nearby clotheslines snapping in the wind.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
