clothesline
Americannoun
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clotheslines
plural
noun
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Origin of clothesline
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In even a light breeze the polyester billows, like a bedsheet on a clothesline, providing enough shade for a family.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 23, 2026
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
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
Among the tanks, pipes, and clotheslines, each family has carved out its own space.
From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026
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
Visibility into the cell . . . must not be obstructed by . . . furniture, clotheslines, clothes, bedding, or towels.
From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover
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