clothesline
Example Sentences
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After waters rapidly rose in West Sumatra and submerged his home, Meri Osman said he was "swept away by the current" and clung onto a clothesline until he was rescued.
From BBC • Nov. 29, 2025
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
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
Mama then heated water in a pot and poured it into another tub and washed the diapers on a washboard and hung them up to dry outside on a clothesline Papa made.
From "The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child" by Francisco Jiménez
