Definition: 1. A long (usually round) rod of wood or metal or plastic. 2. One of two divergent or mutually exclusive opinions. 3. Either of the two ends of a magnet. 4. Either of two opposite or contrasting extremes. 5. To move a boat by pushing on the bottom of a river.
Use 'pole' in a sentence:
1. Lash the piece of wood to the pole to make it longer.
2. Over time, Africa can also become a pole of growth.
3. There have been at least thirteen previous attempts to reach the North Pole unaided.
4. Helen had a dream to walk to the North Pole alone when she was forty.
5. He put a thin wooden pole at the south gate of the Qin capital.
6. I didn't want to be low man on the totem pole for ever.
7. The truck crashed into a telegraph pole.
8. They erected a telephone pole.
9. Finally, a man from the crowd came forward to take the pole.
10. After that, the people of Qin were all talking about what Shang Yang did about the pole.
11. This totem pole was carved from a single tree trunk.
12. The South Pole and the North Pole areantipodes.
13. The two politicians represent opposite poles of the political spectrum.
14. She must have been up the pole to do such a thing.
15. Gardner recorded the fastest lap in qualifying to earn pole position for today's US Grand Prix.
16. Like poles repel each other.
17. The north pole is slightly tipped towards the sun.
18. The car bumped into the telegraph pole.
19. He can carry 150 jin on a pole without straining himself.
20. The South and North Pole are the two points at opposite ends of the earth, about which it revolves.
21. The north pole is warmer than the south and the circulation of air around it is less well contained.
22. The arctic tundra is at the top of the world around the North Pole.
23. When Scott reached the South Pole he found that Amundsen had anticipated him.
24. As Amundsen reckoned, if he won the South Pole, fame as well as financing of future exploration would be secured.
25. The long pole was shortened.
26. Think of them as a tightrope walker's balancing pole.
27. The Antarctica is a continent centred roughly on the South Pole.
28. For six months of the year, there is hardly any light at the poles.
29. Both are brilliant pianists, though they're poles apart in style.
30. The inpocketed vegetal pole cells develop into a sheet of cells which grows upward and eventually encloses a cavity, the archenteron.
31. They're going to make an expedition to the South Pole.
32. During some lightning storms, a bolt can send a 500-volt spike through the nearest utility pole.
33. As she got closer, we saw the spear in her hand was just a wooden pole.
34. Five members of Scott's expedition made it to the South Pole.
35. A red flag slowly goes up the pole.
36. Somebody forgot to bring along the U-bolts to clamp the microphones to the pole.
37. Mr Walesa burned his fingers by promising he would give every Pole 100m zlotys to start a business.
38. We could do this in theory by studying an enormous impact crater, known as the South Pole-Aitken Basin.
39. Their opinions were at opposite poles of the debate.
40. The shelter is built by lashing poles together to form a small dome.
41. He reached up with a hooked pole to roll down the metal shutter.
42. They sighted each pole, reading off measurements that were then used to calculate the change in elevation over each increment.
43. I told them of my adventure at the North Pole.
44. Loop the rope around the pole.
45. At the North and South Pole, there are only two seasons.
46. Hoist the flag to the top of the pole.
47. The Pole Star appears to be changing from a star that pulsates.
48. Wires criss-cross between the tops of the poles, forming a grid.
49. She is a pole-dancer at London's famous Spearmint Rhino club.
50. Like poles repel, unlike poles attract.
51. The North Pole has no land, only thick ice.
52. He ordered some soldiers to put a thin wooden pole at the south gate of the Qin state capital.
53. The island is about one thousand kilometers from the North Pole.
54. The positive pole carries a positive charge while the negative pole does a negative charge.
55. Atlas, the flatter of the two, has a diameter of only 18 kilometers from pole to pole but is almost 40 kilometers across its waist.
56. I can't get the pole to stand up.
57. The shoulder pole creaked under the weight of the luggage.
58. This boat has a special instrument fitting round the pole.
59. He pushed the boat off with a shove of the pole.
60. The shoulder pole bent with heavy load.
61. The conscientious researcher is careful to avoid up the pole and omission.
62. When we think of adventurers, many of us conjure up images of larger-than-life characters trekking to the North Pole.
63. Be careful! Don't jab his eye out with your bamboo pole.
64. Nunavut is 1.9 million square kilometres of rock and ice, and a handful of islands around the North Pole.
65. Although conditions were very poor, people tried for many centuries to reach the North Pole.
66. He shouldered the loaded carrying pole and walked off with a swing.
