How to Use telephone pole in a Sentence

telephone pole

noun

• The tree trunk was as thick as a telephone pole.
  — Sara Gregory, AJC.com, 26 Feb. 2026
• Want to move a telephone pole in Scotland?
  — Evan Ackerman, IEEE Spectrum, 27 Mar. 2019
• Some are not much more apparent than a telephone pole.
  — Jeffrey Marlow, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026
• To the right, a huge osprey took off from a telephone pole with a few languid flaps of its dark wings.
  — Eric Lach, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
• During the chase, the suspect lost control of the car and crashed into a telephone pole.
  — Roberto Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2023
• The car then continued east, striking a telephone pole, police added.
  — Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 16 Feb. 2023
• One man sat in the narrow shadow of a telephone pole, his belongings scattered out in front of him.
  — Rachel Uranga, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
• The first physical act was running a fiber-optic cable to a telephone pole.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 15 May 2026
• The mooring lines tethered to the ocean floor are made of rope nearly thick as a telephone pole and under heavy tension.
  — David Sharp and Jennifer McDermott, The Christian Science Monitor, 15 May 2024
• Make sure that the root flare, the tapered area at the base of the trunk, is situated above ground; your tree should not look like a telephone pole!
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 21 July 2023
• Brooks was thrown headfirst from the courthouse’s second-story window and was beaten and dragged half a mile to the telephone pole where he was lynched.
  — Jason Beeferman, Dallas News, 27 July 2023
• This is the car that taught Porsche to make cars people wanted to buy, but not ones that sent those buyers backward into a telephone pole.
  — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 28 Sep. 2024
• The driver failed to negotiate a curve and the car slid off the right side of the road and struck a telephone pole, Gonzalez said.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 7 Mar. 2024
• The trailer smashed into the pedestrian before hitting a telephone pole and fleeing.
  — Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 7 May 2024
• The police ran tape from the tree in front of our house to a nearby telephone pole, signalling that what moments earlier had been our front yard was now a crime scene.
  — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2023
• When the vehicle accelerates, an agent fires shots into the car, which is then shown crashing into a telephone pole.
  — Sarah Davis, The Hill, 7 Jan. 2026
• The suspect then stole the transport vehicle and crashed it into a telephone pole, according to police.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 11 July 2023
• After prayers and a little luck, the world's tallest sunflower on record now stands nearly the height of a residential telephone pole.
  — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 10 Sep. 2025
• Whether through surprise or distraction or simple freaking the hell out, the man subsequently drove his car into a telephone pole at speed.
  — Bradley Brownell / Jalopnik, Quartz, 12 May 2024
• After several shots were exchanged, Davis appeared to have been hit and staggered backward into a telephone pole.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 15 Mar. 2023
• Unlike our large and visible moon, the small asteroid is only 37 feet wide — roughly the height of a standard telephone pole.
  — Stephanie Vermillion, Travel + Leisure, 1 Oct. 2024
• Lessons cannot be learned in the ashes of civilization; there are few heroes, and more often than not, those who choose to follow the path of heroism wind up dead, if not crucified on a telephone pole.
  — Jack King, Vulture, 31 Dec. 2025
• Witnesses reported the impact forced the car, driven by a 16-year-old, off the road and into a telephone pole on the north side of Lake Road.
  — Cheryl Higley, cleveland, 28 July 2023
• 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
• 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
• One of the vehicles also struck a telephone pole and the side of a house, causing a gas leak that forced the temporary evacuation of surrounding homes, authorities said.
  — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2023
• Earlier this month, Waymo issued a software and mapping recall for all its vehicles after one of its robotaxis crashed into a telephone pole.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 25 June 2024
• The telephone pole is visibly damaged but Duke Energy is expected to respond later Friday to fix it.
  — Jennifer Edwards Baker, The Enquirer, 8 Mar. 2024
• In Atlanta, grocery store manager Matthew Garbett found a 50-pound Labrador mix tied to a telephone pole at his store, abandoned.
  — Bloomberg, Orange County Register, 8 Jan. 2024
• And others who gathered in the parking lot stood directly in the path of a telephone pole and overheard power lines, which could have caused severe bodily harm had Sunday’s drill been a powerful earthquake.
  — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2023