telephone poles

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of telephone pole.
  telephone pole

  noun

  a utility pole for supporting telephone wires.

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telephone poles

They’re the keg-shaped cylinders attached to telephone poles.

From Barron's ● Jun. 4, 2026

Some jobs take months of training or an artist’s attention to detail; others require the physical strength and stamina to climb telephone poles in summer heat.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 1, 2026

The few trees that had survived the fire now looked like Christmas trees planted on top of telephone poles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2025

The Daisetta sinkhole opened in 2008, “swallowing oil tanks, trees, telephone poles and several cars,” according to a report in the Dallas Morning News.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2025

Greentrees and telephone poles flew past the windows.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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