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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

Some roofs had clotheslines with white sheets flapping in the summer breeze.

From "Bad Boy" by Walter Dean Myers