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
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
Quickly he slipped up a cobbled street, turned into a garden, stripped off his uniform and hung it on a clothesline.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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