How to Use pole in a Sentence

pole

1 of 2 noun

• Use an old broom or an extendable pole with a cloth wrapped around the end to reach high places.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 9 July 2026
• Make your yard inviting to those raptors by installing a perch pole to land on.
  — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 6 July 2026
• At a curve in the road, the truck exited the pavement to the left and hit a light pole.
  — Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 5 July 2026
• Without a pole, hook, or tree to climb, squirrels are left defeated and bereft.
  — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 July 2026
• The perch pole should be 12 to 20 feet tall and placed in a spot that gives the birds a full view of your yard.
  — Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 6 July 2026
• That sounds way better than messing around with a complex spider web of pole segments, elastic cords, sleeves and clips.
  — New Atlas, 9 July 2026
• As the brief clip shows, the flood reached about halfway up nearby transmission poles, and well beyond the first floor of nearby buildings.
  — Joe Wilkins, Futurism, 8 July 2026
• Add appropriate footwear, water and snacks, plus optional trekking poles and one small luxury item.
  — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 13 July 2026
• The driver weaved between two lanes of traffic and drove directly into a concrete overhead sign support pole.
  — Kansas City Star, 8 July 2026
• There are also tent pole sets, gear containers (which also come in a waterproof and group pack design), and tent carrying cases.
  — Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 10 July 2026
• Most rural power lines consist of bare, uninsulated aluminum wires strung across thousands of miles of wooden poles, often through rugged forests.
  — Jasmine Garland, The Conversation, 7 July 2026
• The busboy, Oscar, fantasizes about slathering honey over Kelce's bared chest as he is tied to a pole, leaving him to be eaten by a bear.
  — Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 4 July 2026
• The busboy, Oscar, fantasizes about slathering honey over Kelce's bared chest as he is tied to a pole, leaving him to be eaten by a bear.
  — Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 8 July 2026
• Police continue to investigate why the driver was weaving and drove into the pole, Becchina said.
  — Kansas City Star, 8 July 2026
• Crest Canyon, which includes 82 poles across 152 properties, is in the middle of construction.
  — Luke Harold, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2026
• In Emerald Isle, worries wash out with the tides and hospitality always includes making room for one more fishing pole on the pier.
  — Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 7 July 2026
• Firefighters arrived to find the driver trapped inside a Chevrolet Silverado crew cab that had been pinned against a light rail catenary pole.
  — Sacbee.com, 4 July 2026
• Antonelli snatched pole, but between them was Charles Leclerc, Hamilton’s teammate at Ferrari.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 6 July 2026
• The two stood, holding onto a light pole in Battery Park to get a better view of the Tall Ships parade with planes flying overhead.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 4 July 2026
• Hamilton started on pole and held off Antonelli until lap eight of 17, when the Italian swept past with the help of electrical power.
  — ABC News, 4 July 2026
• Youngsters romped through the crowd, happily indulging in eggthrowing or dunking-machine antics or trying to climb to the pinnacle of a greased pole, where a $20 bill waited.
  — Orlando Sentinel Staff, The Orlando Sentinel, 4 July 2026
• The City Council must approve the project before construction, set for this year, begins on the single-pole tower between baseball fields on the east side of the property.
  — Olivia Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 9 July 2026
• His blast, which sailed just inside the right field foul pole, was the difference as the Padres beat the Diamondbacks 4-1 at Petco Park.
  — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2026
• The show’s interiors, including the fireman’s poles behind the bookcase, were shot on soundstages at Culver City Studios.
  — David Hochman, Forbes.com, 10 July 2026
• If it’s built too high or in an awkward spot, Bailey recommends using your phone to zoom in and take a photo, using a telescoping pole with a mirror on the end, or using a stepladder to get closer to the nest.
  — Blythe Copeland, Martha Stewart, 7 July 2026
• Balancing on a light pole in New York’s Battery Park, Elver and Vanessa Radke attempted to glimpse the tall ships' white sails.
  — Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 5 July 2026
• Whether they're getting greased after a Super Bowl or spoiling All-Star rosters, does any city's poles get as much attention as Philadelphia's?
  — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 4 July 2026
• Moon then chipped a nifty shot over Sacramento goalkeeper Danny Vitiello before sprinting to the corner kick flag and delivering a flying karate kick that snapped the pole at its base.
  — Idaho Statesman, 12 July 2026
• The utility offered to give investigators access to the trash containers where the pole was discarded, Kushner wrote, but the commission declined to inspect them.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2026
• In video of the occupation, Tubbs and his trusty dog Pujo can be seen sitting atop a towering twenty-foot platform, precariously balanced on two long poles anchored by an unwieldy pair of cables.
  — Literary Hub, 10 July 2026

pole

2 of 2 verb

• The painting shows one such traverse, the bargees poling the barge across the river.
  — Literary Hub, 12 May 2026
• To come so close to pole marked another step in Hamilton’s recent upswing in form.
  — Luke Smith, New York Times, 13 June 2026
• The guide will pole the skiff along on the shallow flats from a platform at the back of the boat, while the angler stands ready to cast from the front.
  — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2021
• Four full-sky surveys are planned over two years, as the telescope circles the globe from pole to pole 400 miles up.
  — Marcia Dunn, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025
• Aitken had already lost Le Mans pole to a contentious stewards’ ruling.
  — Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 16 June 2026
• But a post-session penalty dropped Aitken to 10th place and boosted Vanthoor to pole.
  — Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 11 June 2026
• The Dane’s lap then put him to pole, with the Mexican driver, still searching for his first pole of the year.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 15 July 2023
• Beyond Gatun the river current was stronger, and the boatmen needed all their strength to pole the bungos upstream.
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 2 Oct. 2020
• His plan is to be the first person to circumnavigate the globe from east to west and pole to pole without the help of motors, sails, or solar energy.
  — The Editors, Outside Online, 17 Nov. 2014
• This array of trash-picker-uppers includes fishing rods, extra-long slotted spoons, and grabber poles up to 30 feet long.
  — Owen Clarke, Outside, 11 Sep. 2025
• Vonn had registered the fastest time at the first checkpoint and then landed a jump off balance, lifted her left arm and pole high into the air in an attempt to regain her balance.
  — CBS News, 30 Jan. 2026
• Wiseman recounted a moment that captivated the entire crew — seeing the Earth from pole to pole, even spotting the northern lights.
  — Andrea Leinfelder, Houston Chronicle, 3 Apr. 2026
• But, at the end of the day, finishing first in your respective conference goes a long way for the voting party, which Denver has seemingly done pole to pole this season.
  — Tyler Small, Forbes, 31 Mar. 2023
• First, an explanation of the underlying poling data, which Franklin pulled together for this story.
  — Craig Gilbert, Journal Sentinel, 23 Dec. 2024
• Being an island at a reasonably high latitude means rockets can launch north over uninhabited ocean, entering into orbit from pole to pole around our planet.
  — WIRED, 23 Sep. 2022
• Years of poling clients to victory in his skiff kept his schedule booked nearly every day with anglers wanting to catch one of the Keys’ cherished sportfish — bonefish, permit or tarpon.
  — Patrick Farrell, Sun Sentinel, 21 Apr. 2024
• But a fun trek from pole to pole on the Panamericana remains agonizingly out of reach, thanks to a dense tropical forest on the Panama-Colombia border.
  — Ken Jennings, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Jan. 2017
• The first mission to orbit an outer planet from pole to pole, Juno is armored with a titanium radiation vault to help protect it against Jupiter’s intense radiation belts.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 30 Sep. 2024
• Columbia, then Rodinia and most recently Pangea, which formed about 335 million years ago, stretching from pole to pole along the longitudes of the mid-Atlantic.
  — Jack Feerick, Discover Magazine, 25 Oct. 2020
• Chase Elliott also featured prominently in the qualifying session, dominating the final practice by setting the fastest time and winning the first qualifying heat from pole to pole.
  — David Faris, Newsweek, 2 Feb. 2025
• The boys pole vaulters kept the crowd around late as San Dieguito’s Dylan Yarbrough and Torrey Pines’ Tyler Suhar each cleared 16 feet, 1 inch.
  — Steve Brand, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
• The telegraph-poling parties found traces of gold in the stony hills around Pine Creek, south of Darwin, and in 1872 gold-prospecting parties began to arrive through Port Darwin.
  — Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Mar. 2026
• The textbooks currently state that Jupiter is 88,846 miles (142,984 kilometers) across at its equator, and 83,082 miles (133,708 km) from pole to pole.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 4 Feb. 2026
• Although Cadillac beat Ferrari to pole here in 2025, there is a wide expectation ahead of the race that a different manufacturer could triumph in Hypercar for the first time since 2022, when Toyota triumphed.
  — Alex Kalinauckas, New York Times, 11 June 2026