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
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
I use a clothesline made of four shoelaces and aim my three fans to dry everything.
From Slate • Dec. 14, 2023
If she hung a black petticoat on her clothesline, it meant that another member of the ring, Caleb Brewster, a blacksmith and boatman, had arrived in his boat.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
