utility pole
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
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
But he doesn’t think it was the abandoned utility pole stump, which he remembers seeing in Hawaiian Electric’s right-of-way for the 20 years he’s lived there.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 2023
Officer Delinko was mulling his situation, watching the rain stream down, when a lightning bolt zapped a utility pole at the end of the street.
From "Hoot" by Carl Hiaasen
