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View synonyms for telephone pole
telephone pole
noun
- a utility pole for supporting telephone wires.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of telephone pole1
An Americanism dating back to 1880–85
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Example Sentences
Finally—his eyes on me instead of where he was going—he drove into a telephone pole with a horrifying crash.
From The Daily Beast
She was found slumped over the wheel in her Mercedes coupe, which had crashed into a telephone pole.
From The Daily Beast
Just across the alley from this point, Black Hood spied a wood telephone pole.
From Project Gutenberg
The machine halted, but with a telephone-pole almost between the front wheels!
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A bird hovered above a telephone pole, its wings glued to the blue vault of the sky.
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"Bump," it went up against a telephone pole and the wind left it there.
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I remember one picture he took of a wheat straw that was driven into a telephone pole.
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