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

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

We’d clip them to a kind of clothesline that took them down to the composing room.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2024

The garden ran neat and tidy from the back porch down to the cobhouse beside the yard where she stretched her clothesline.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck