Sentence examples for by a falling pole from inspiring English sources

A former electrician, he damaged his spine in 2001 when he was hit by a falling pole.

A taxi lay underneath a fallen pole and downed power lines.

Wind gusts up to 56 mph toppled several trees on Sanibel Island and a few power poles; a man was injured when his car struck a fallen pole.

Lei Feng is reported to have died in a freak accident in 1962 — struck by a falling telephone pole.

Some accounts say that Lei died when he was hit in the head by a falling telephone pole that was knocked over by an army truck.

By the time Lei Feng died at 21 — in 1962, slain by a falling telephone pole — a slew of government paparazzi had captured him fixing military trucks, darning his fellow soldiers' socks or diligently studying the works of Chairman Mao by flashlight.

As a result, we now have in storage more than an acre of fallen pole material.

A second tornado in the county later that day broke light poles and snapped tree limbs in North Naples, with one person being injured by a falling branch.

He recalled lying behind a fallen power pole, immobilized by fear and feeling strangely detached from the situation.

By a fall from a telegraph pole one afternoon he sustains injuries which force a lay-off for several weeks.

They do not account for roads that were blocked by falling power poles and abandoned cars the day of the fire or the two hours that it took police to establish one-way traffic on Skyway.