: a tall wooden pole that supports the wires of a telephone system
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One by one, daring participants dash across a 45-foot horizontal telephone pole that's coated in grease, attempting to capture a flag at the end of it.—
Neal Riley,
CBS News,
26 June 2026 The first physical act was running a fiber-optic cable to a telephone pole.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
15 May 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for telephone pole