utility pole

noun

: a tall wooden pole that is used to support telephone wires, electrical wires, etc.

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Listen to this article A man who state police allege was driving with a blood alcohol content nearly twice the legal limit struck a utility pole on Route 66 in Hebron in the early morning hours Thursday, which snapped the pole and took down power lines. —

Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 23 Jan. 2025 Occasionally one scurried in circles around a disabled vehicle, a utility pole or the trunk of a tree. —

C.j. Chivers Robert Fass Krish Seenivasan Steven Szczesniak, New York Times, 31 Dec. 2024 An 89-year-old man was driving a 2001 Ford Taurus southbound on Loring Road when the car left the road and struck a utility pole, Newsday reported. —

Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 6 Jan. 2025 The car traveled southeast running off the roadway left onto the median into the northbound lanes and sidewalk while rotating clockwise with the left side of the vehicle striking a utility pole. —

Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 26 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for utility pole