How do you use Clothesline in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like cord, plus the exact meaning.
Clothesline in a sentence
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Clothesline meaning
- A rope or cord tied up outdoors to hang clothes on so they can dry.
- A structure with multiple cords for the same purpose, such as a Hills hoist.
- The act of knocking a person over by striking his or her upper body or neck with one's arm, as if he or she had run into a low clothesline.
Synonyms of Clothesline
Using Clothesline
- The main meaning on this page is: A rope or cord tied up outdoors to hang clothes on so they can dry. | A structure with multiple cords for the same purpose, such as a Hills hoist. | The act of knocking a person over by striking his or her upper body or neck with one's arm, as if he or she had run into a low clothesline.
- Useful related words include: cord.
- In the example corpus, clothesline often appears in combinations such as: with clothesline, clothesline and, clothesline to.
Context around Clothesline
- Average sentence length in these examples: 19.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 10 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Clothesline
- In this selection, "clothesline" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 19.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, swift, coiled, double, gets, comeback and counter stand out and add context to how "clothesline" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include with a clothesline and a big clothesline counter. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "clothesline" sits close to words such as acosta, afar and anterior, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with clothesline
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Dak hit a hard clothesline and was in charge. (9 words)
Clothesline, a 1965 serigraph-on-paper by Canadian artist Christopher Pratt. (11 words)
Dango stalled to start, but Hendry walloped him with a clothesline. (11 words)
A side Russian legsweep and a swift clothesline gets Windsor another two-count, before Echo began to beat Windsor to the punch, knocking the former champion into the corner ahead of a clothesline through the buckles. (36 words)
Charlotte then catches Bayley with a Lethal Combination in the corner, hits the walk over clothesline but only gets 2. Asuka blind tags in and hoists Bayley onto the top rope. (31 words)
Another bodyslam and a whip into the corner, Lopez with shoulders to the gut. Short-arm whip to the corner, Thea ducks a clothesline and rolls Lopez up for one. (30 words)
Example sentences (20)
Sysum ate a clothesline from Rampage, who held Sysum for Samuels, who missed a clothesline and ended up eating a clothesline from his fellow heel.
A side Russian legsweep and a swift clothesline gets Windsor another two-count, before Echo began to beat Windsor to the punch, knocking the former champion into the corner ahead of a clothesline through the buckles.
And I knew there was coiled clothesline in a drawer in the kitchen.
Another bodyslam and a whip into the corner, Lopez with shoulders to the gut. Short-arm whip to the corner, Thea ducks a clothesline and rolls Lopez up for one.
Another is met with a kick, but KO eats it and hits a clothesline then a senton to Gunther.
A short time later, Romero turned Ospreay inside out with a clothesline.
Back again with Orton making the clothesline comeback, followed by the powerslam.
Back with Luchasaurus hitting a chokeslam and a clothesline to the back of the head for the pin at 5:22.
Cannonball waddles down to the ring and hits a double clothesline then a double avalanche in the corner to both Manders and Justice.
Charlotte then catches Bayley with a Lethal Combination in the corner, hits the walk over clothesline but only gets 2. Asuka blind tags in and hoists Bayley onto the top rope.
Ciclope hit a Doomsday Clothesline on Raju for a nearfall at 11:00.
Clothesline, a 1965 serigraph-on-paper by Canadian artist Christopher Pratt.
Dak hit a hard clothesline and was in charge.
Dango stalled to start, but Hendry walloped him with a clothesline.
Eventually, the heels regained the momentum when Dutch hit Allin with clothesline and the show went into its final picture-in-picture break.
Femi escapes to the outside, Tavion follows and rolls Femi in. He grabs Femi but Femi with a big clothesline counter.
Ford stomps on Butch but Butch fights back with chops before taking a short distance discus clothesline from Ford.
Gunn went for the Fameasser on Jeff Hardy, but Hardy blocked it and ducked a clothesline.
Hammer elbows follow, as did a ripcord… but Oku ducks the clothesline and returned with headscissors and a missile dropkick off the middle rope.
He delivers some clubbering (TM Dusty Rhodes), but Smash comes back with a slam and then his own clothesline.
Common combinations with clothesline
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- with clothesline 25×
- clothesline and 24×
- clothesline to 15×
- clothesline for 11×
- clothesline then 10×
- clothesline from 9×
- double clothesline 9×
- clothesline on 9×
- and clothesline 8×
- clothesline but 8×