clothesline
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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
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 work, with a handsome design by Mr. Loquasto, features what look like sheets of pewter leaf hanging from clotheslines, beneath and through which eight dancers in dusky-hued unitards come and go.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 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
Dozens of tents line the sidewalk outside the Sheraton Gateway and Four Points Sheraton LAX; over the tents dangle string lights and clotheslines festooned with laundry, including lacy lingerie and baby onesies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
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
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