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telephone pole
noun
- a utility pole for supporting telephone wires.
Word History and Origins
Origin of telephone pole1
Example Sentences
As the fire burned through telephone poles, phone service went down.
It was a beautiful drive, until I saw signs hanging from fences and telephone poles that proclaimed: “Keep the sewage in Mexico. Stop the stink!”
Off in the distance, a fence is glimpsed, suggesting a cultivated landscape rather than a wild one, while a lone telephone pole identifies the rural location as tethered to community via modern communication.
The mooring lines tethered to the ocean floor are made of rope nearly thick as a telephone pole and under heavy tension.
Mom turned down our street and there she was, putting up a poster on the telephone pole in front of our house.
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