utility pole
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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She said she was told she’d have to pay to relocate a utility pole.
From Los Angeles Times • May 16, 2026
Residents lost electricity for a few hours before the Department of Water and Power repaired the utility pole Sunday.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 30, 2025
After a utility pole fell and ignited a wildfire, Frank King and his family raced to escape as electrical transformers exploded around their homes near Oregon’s coast.
From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2024
They included a heavily charred, hollowed 4-foot-tall stump of a utility pole, two heavily burned trees and the remains of an old car tire.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2023
Everyone has an Aunt Matilda who had a vivid dream of a fiery car crash the night before Uncle Mortimer wrapped his Ford around a utility pole.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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