pole
Example Sentences
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She saw it gleaming as she trudged along a paved road that hugs the fence, dropping her hiking poles the moment it registered.
From Los Angeles Times
About 40 other members of his crew are sprinkled across this rural corner of Apache County, digging ditches, hanging fiber cables on utility poles and joining tiny fiber strands.
After receiving medical attention for about five minutes, Vonn slowly skied to the finish line, using her poles to support herself and stopping twice to clutch her knee.
From Los Angeles Times
While the company has been viewed as in pole position to benefit from the developments in Venezuela, Wirth said he would not deviate from weighing risks and opportunity in determining how much to invest.
From Barron's
The story is still being written, but power is concentrating in these two poles.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.