: a tall wooden pole that supports the wires of a telephone system
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State police said the operator of a 2001 Polaris Sportsman 500, a 17-year-old Woodbury boy, veered off the right side of the road and struck a telephone pole.—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 4 May 2026 Some are not much more apparent than a telephone pole.—Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026 The tree trunk was as thick as a telephone pole.—Sara Gregory, AJC.com, 26 Feb. 2026 The special effects, such as Bad Bunny’s going through the roof of the house or climbing the telephone pole, were cool and fit well with the video montage shown in the stadium.—Jason Jones, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for telephone pole