clothesline
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Footage obtained by TMZ shows Sweeney climbing up the Hollywood sign to help string up a clothesline of assorted bras across the familiar landmark.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 26, 2026
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
Perhaps he had been unwise in tying one end of the clothesline to his own wrist.
From "Mr. Popper's Penguins" by Florence Atwater and Richard Atwater
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 long, thin spaghetti shape, he says, was an especially efficient way to dry the pasta, by hanging the strands on structures similar to clotheslines.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 26, 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
Women hang up bedding on clotheslines in the morning to keep them dry during the day, then lay them on the ground at night to sleep.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 9, 2024
She hands the letter back and stares down the alley at the dense ranks of clotheslines and coalbins.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
