utility pole
Example Sentences
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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
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 charred stump of an abandoned utility pole.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2023
I stopped next to a utility pole for a bit, exhaled heavily, and threw some angry punches in the air.
From "A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier" by Ishmael Beah
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