clothesline
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Origin of 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
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
He had the same feeling he got when he rubbed his face against the sheets that hung on the clothesline every Monday.
From "Sounder" by William H. Armstrong
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
Left behind among the piles of trash are clotheslines made from barbed wire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 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
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