Example Sentences

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Immediately the crowd began to run, as Petrograd crowds do, falling down and lying still in the street, piled in the gutters, heaped up behind telephone-poles.

From Ten Days That Shook the World by Reed, John

He had telegraph-poles and telephone-poles and electric-light-poles and trolley-poles by the thousand to take their places.

From The Turmoil, a novel by Tarkington, Booth