What is "clotheslines"

Usage examples of "clotheslines".

A few years ago, she and Keely had made a large flower bed of roses and lavender behind the clotheslines so that the wind would carry the scent over the clean clothes.

Freshly cleaned clothes, now only slightly yellowed, flapped in the breeze from the clotheslines Gab had strung between three small tres in the back of the cabin.

With a dirt floor, there was little she could accomplish by sweeping, but she wiped the dust off the furniture and window ledges and hung the blankets out to air on the clotheslines that Gabe had put up.

They walked together out to the clotheslines to take down the remaining linens.

There was no one living here at all, really -- no one, at least, visible in the black taut overnight -- no weak fires warming peasants, no clotheslines strung between hovels.

Oskar has forgotten to tell you that the staircase leading to the gallery was not a real staircase but more like a companionway, because on either side of its dangerously steep steps there were two extremely original clotheslines to hold on to.

Overhead, leaves hung motionless, like damp nappies on clotheslines on a windless day.

Passing a settlement of old half-collapsed towers with lank gray laundry hanging straight down from clotheslines, they saw children playing among smashed cars in a sealed-off street.

Among the cars were cooking fires, and clotheslines, and canvas flaps outstretched for shade.

He reached the top of the stairs, pushed a metal door, and came out crouching on the roof, his pistol aimed at air 'vents, clotheslines, pipes, TV aerials.

When not killing flies, he'd been making the net since his mother had left, taking kite string from Kensington Park, cord from vacant lots, rope and shoelaces from trash cans, wool and thread from neighbors' bureau drawers, twine from the mill down the street, and clotheslines from nearby yards.