Examples of “clothesline” in a Sentence

noun A rope or cord strung up outdoors for hanging washing to dry.

• Hang this towel out on the clothesline for me.
• Sheets flapped on the clothesline in the summer breeze.

verb To knock someone down by striking them across the chest or neck with an outstretched arm.

• The referee called a personal foul, when he clotheslined the running back.
• One beast jams out its arm, as if to clothesline me, jagged claws poised to take my head off at the neck. I let my feet fall from under me, throwing my legs forward, praying for some momentum, ducking and sliding, a mad limbo to freedom. — Jonathan Wood, No Hero (2014)
• The linebacker clotheslined the runner just short of the end zone.