Pole in a sentence as a noun

I was taught that the most direct route between two points on the globe is through the north pole.

This causes the pole to be either sheared off or to stop the car before the pole hits an occupant.

The "market" won't correct anything, because no one will touch the BofA toxic waste dump with a 10 foot pole.

I expect the next step will be that a quad-copter UAV will 'nest' on top of a ShotSpotter pole where is will stay charged.

Your thumb represents a planet's N pole, and your fingers point in the direction that the planet is spinning.

Pole in a sentence as a verb

Only replace "outsource" with "delegate to someone lower on the totem pole.

Twitter's "pants" is also worth looking at.* Don't touch Spring with a 60-foot pole: in the mildest terms it's unequivocal and absolute garbage.

His diplomacy here, as well as with Bethesda, has been stellar: Not "Steam is a DRM-ridden mess that I wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole, bwa ha ha!

True, some have the temperament and luck to scale the greasy pole of "success", but many others don't -- or choose to focus their energies elsewhere.

I have never heard or experienced anyone's bike being impounded for chaining it up to a pole or post that is not officially "a designated area to chain your bike.

Pole definitions

noun

a long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic

noun

a native or inhabitant of Poland

See also: Pole

noun

one of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions; "they are at opposite poles"; "they are poles apart"

noun

a linear measure of 16.5 feet

See also: perch

noun

a square rod of land

See also: perch

noun

one of two points of intersection of the Earth's axis and the celestial sphere

noun

one of two antipodal points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects the Earth's surface

noun

a contact on an electrical device (such as a battery) at which electric current enters or leaves

See also: terminal

noun

a long fiberglass sports implement used for pole vaulting

noun

one of the two ends of a magnet where the magnetism seems to be concentrated

verb

propel with a pole; "pole barges on the river"; "We went punting in Cambridge"

See also: punt

verb

support on poles; "pole climbing plants like beans"

verb

deoxidize molten metals by stirring them with a wooden pole