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Example sentences for "pole"

Lexicographically close words:
polarized; polarizer; polarizes; polarizing; polders; poleaxe; polecat; polecats; poled; polemarch
  1. I know 't I set ye up to this bean-pole business.

  2. Thar 's a time to be a bean-pole and thar 's a time to kile.

  3. The ridge-pole of the Milan Cathedral is of white marble, like all the rest of the edifice; it is wide and flat, and just the height for a comfortable seat.

  4. For with the conversation upon the ridge-pole of the Milan Cathedral life had seemed to close for her.

  5. Come over here, and sit down on the ridge-pole beside me.

  6. Ascidia, affinity of the lancelet to; tad-pole like larvae of.

  7. Reginald Pole survived his kinswoman some twenty-two hours, and almost the last sounds to reach his ears were the cheers with which a people that breathed freely once more greeted the accession of Queen Elizabeth.

  8. Curiously enough, Walsh, who was appointed by Pole in virtue of his legatine authority, did not receive a Papal provision till 1564, some time after Elizabeth had expelled him from his see.

  9. A communication from Pole was read by Curwin as Chancellor, kneeling down in open session, in which the Cardinal urged the assembly to restore Ireland to full communion with the Church.

  10. Pole would never have been allowed into England.

  11. BEAR-PIT, a deep, open pit with perpendicular walls, built in a zoological garden for keeping bears, and having in the centre a pole on which they may exercise their climbing powers.

  12. Despite all that Thad could do with his paddle, supplemented by the energetic use of the push-pole in the hands of Giraffe, also working like a hero, the boat did not move along as fast as they would have liked.

  13. Giraffe started to make use of his pole again, and as Thad also manipulated the oar they quickly made land.

  14. The Lesser Bear may be imagined as having the shape of a horn, of which the small end is near the pole of the heavens around which the Primum Mobile revolves.

  15. We will rest the pole against the window, and the poor child will slide along it.

  16. With a little gesture she came, took the pole from his hand, and bade him rest.

  17. Great white, red, and yellow flowers swing from pole to pole as the sea breeze freshens; trailing tendrils of vine and clematis nod through the open windows and mingle with the cords of the string curtains.

  18. Yes, sir, we cut him down and moved him up a pole or two.

  19. One of the officers of the post, having occasion to go to the railroad station one day at Valentine, saw the body of a man hanging to a telegraph pole a short distance up the track.

  20. A hat on the end of a pole is waved weakly from the beach.

  21. From the time of fixing the first pole for the pandal to the tying of the tali, the village astrologer is in attendance on all ceremonial occasions, as he has to pronounce the auspicious moment for the performance of each item.

  22. A feast is held at the expense of the girl's maternal uncle, who brings a goat, and ties it to a pole at her house.

  23. Chinese Coolies Using the Bamboo Pole Are a Common Sight in Hongkong.

  24. Here, however, both men and women carry heavy burdens on their heads, while the Chinese use the pole and baskets, so familiar to all Californians.

  25. It was all in good trim, and his questing eye soon saw where a long, slender pole could be cut.

  26. Cardinal Pole possessed a patent from Queen Mary, authorising a household of 100 servants.

  27. Another is tugging at a thick pole just below you.

  28. They began to swim round, examining the queer pole on every side.

  29. I carried out an old stuffed owl, and set it up on a pole close against a great pine tree on the edge of a grove.

  30. It is of interest to note how like a needle to the pole the grand conspirator's mind flies to the fact which most appeals to him --that they find "that the authority they had .

  31. These were such a bother on my table that I pasted two strips of tin-foil on the wall at my desk, connecting one piece to the positive pole of the big battery supplying current to the wires and the negative pole to the other strip.

  32. Although the space between the train and the pole line was not more than fifty feet, Edison had succeeded at Menlo Park in transmitting messages through the air at a distance of five hundred and eighty feet.

  33. This instrument was similar to the receiver used to-day, having a metallic diaphragm placed near the pole of a magnet.

  34. This harangue was received with laughter and shouts of applause, and then the music announced that the ascent of the pole would begin.

  35. Did the German ask of the Alsatian or the Pole worse than we have been compelled to ask of our own soldiers in Russia, India, or Ireland?

  36. Therefore organic life is like balancing a pole on one's hand; it must be kept in continual motion, and have a constant supply of matter of which it is continually and endlessly in need.

  37. Even the North Pole men were like others.

  38. Then swinging the pole over their shoulders, they started off on a dog-trot to the village, shouting as they went.

  39. Passing two strands of rope made of rice straw around the carcass, they inserted a thick bamboo pole under the withes.

  40. The big pole is dashed into the water in order to frighten the trout towards the net, and very great judgment is required in the rower, for if he happens to take the wrong track he may easily put the fish in the way of escape.

  41. As soon as he had passed the marsh that borders the waste, the practical jokers pushed up a pole with the lantern on top, and with the sheet over the lantern.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pole" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acme; advance; antipodes; apex; apogee; arbor; axis; balustrade; banister; bar; barbican; base; beam; belfry; billet; board; boundary; bowl; brow; bunt; butt; campanile; cap; clapboard; climax; colonnade; colossus; column; cord; crest; crown; culmination; cupola; dado; deal; die; dome; drive; edge; extreme; extremity; firewood; forward; frontier; fulcrum; gudgeon; heaven; height; hinge; hub; impel; kilometer; lantern; lath; lighthouse; limit; log; lumber; mast; maximum; measure; meridian; minaret; monument; mountaintop; move; nave; noon; nowhere; oar; obelisk; outpost; outskirts; paddle; pagoda; paneling; peak; pedal; pedestal; pedicel; pier; pilaster; pile; pillar; pin; pinnacle; pintle; pitch; pivot; plank; planking; plinth; plywood; point; polarity; polarization; pole; post; propel; push; pylon; pyramid; radiant; ridge; rod; roll; row; scape; scull; shaft; shake; sheathing; sheeting; shingle; shove; shunt; siding; sky; skyscraper; slab; slat; softwood; spar; spindle; spire; splat; staff; stake; stalk; stanchion; stand; standard; standpipe; stave; steeple; stem; stick; sticks; stub; stump; stupa; summit; sweep; swivel; tail; thrust; timber; tip; tongue; top; tope; tour; tower; treadle; tree; troll; trundle; trunk; turret; upmost; upright; utmost; vertex; weatherboard; wood; zenith