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
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
“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
She got sick of him using the patch under her clothesline.
From "I Am the Messenger" by Markus Zusak
In the covered outdoor corridors, Irhil and the other families have appropriated the space, setting up planters on ledges, a dish-washing station in a classroom sink, and clotheslines between the columns.
From Barron's ● Nov. 20, 2025
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
Left behind among the piles of trash are clotheslines made from barbed wire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2024
These already looked like the ones we’d first moved into, sand piling up against foundation blocks, the clotheslines empty, all signs and markers gone.
From "Farewell to Manzanar" by Jeanne Houston
