telegraph pole
Example Sentences
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He found no sign of skaters or a wonky telegraph pole often referred to in fen skating circles.
From BBC ● Jan. 26, 2023
For example, imagine the task that telegraph pole installers faced 170 years ago.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 29, 2020
Notices stuck to a telegraph pole advertised an upcoming raffle, a talk about Lord Byron, and the campaign to save the school, which is a hundred and eighteen years old.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 3, 2018
On a recent stag weekend in Hamburg, Kit witnessed a stag – dressed in a hamburger outfit – climbing a telegraph pole.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 8, 2018
At the bottom of the hill it charged across the road, knocking over a telegraph pole and flattening two parked automobiles as it went by.
From "James and the Giant Peach" by Roald Dahl
