Sentence examples for wash line from inspiring English sources

Ropes were strung from floor to floor, and clothes were hung on them as if on a wash line.

In his "Family Going for a Walk" (1953), for example, Armitage creates a fanciful screenlike figure recalling wind-whipped clothing on a wash line.

Make Believe Joanna Scott 256pp, Harvill, £12 In her bold novel, Make Believe, Joanna Scott starts with the hard part: trying to show her reader how it feels to be a three-year-old child hanging upside down in a newly wrecked car, "hurting and dangling like a pair of jeans on the wash line".

So instead of passing my time in the car wash line while listening to Click and Clack on Car Talk, I simply ordered a car wash on my iPad using Cherry.

They found the results, judged by taste and the "wash lines" the drinks left at their fluffiest, post-shaking, were surprisingly uniform.

When Lyuba played a tape of local bagpipe music, that theory made sense; the plaid fabrics hanging on the wash lines added still more credibility.

Smoke drifts from chimneys, tiny clothes hang on wash lines, real gardens bloom.

It stuck to the dried meat and berries they hung outside, coated the clothing on wash lines.

Both sides have more combinations than a Victorian washing line.

Her memorial was carved with a simple washing line.

They both know what's really going on out by the washing line".