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

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

They include a heavily charred, hollowed 4-foot-tall stump of a utility pole that was marked with yellow tape, pulled from the ground with a crane and trucked to an evidence warehouse.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 26, 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

Everyone has an Aunt Matilda who had a vivid dream of a fiery car crash the night before Uncle Mortimer wrapped his Ford around a utility pole.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos