utility pole
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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He headed from the Palisades fire to Eaton Canyon around 6:45 p.m. after being briefly stranded on the ember-filled Pacific Coast Highway due to a flat tire from a fallen utility pole.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 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
A photo supplied by the agency showed the van crushed up against a utility pole.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 30, 2023
The northbound tractor-trailer traveled off of the roadway and hit both a ditch and utility pole before overturning onto its right side.
From Salon • Apr. 11, 2023
Six hundred miles from Hook Mountain, she came down on a utility pole on Cape Hatteras.
From "Frightful's Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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