The place smelled of creosote, like old railroad ties or phone poles, but she no longer noticed it.

These can be found just about anywhere but they are usually underneath the nearest phone pole.

Butting up to it was a phone pole, and Mabel saw a man scurry down it.

She edged up to the window and watched the man jump off the phone pole, then go running down the narrow alley behind the house.

Almost there, slowpoke he told himself as sweat filled his eyes and blurred the image of the phone pole less than a hundred yards distant.

It was the kind of thing you could bang into a phone pole with and nothing would happen at all.

They ran into a phone pole before they were even out of the parking lot.

A straw moving at an incredible speed hits the phone pole.

When you get to the street-, scan the phone poles- What on earth was he trying to tell her?

They are not businesslike and military, like phone poles anchored in concrete.