Sentence examples for pole topped from inspiring English sources

Down the beach, Ms. Doxey hefted an odd piece of debris, a long bamboo pole topped with a hook.

At the Shalamcheh port of entry, a few miles from the fort, Iranian workers recently erected a giant pole topped with a large Iranian flag that now towers over a much smaller Iraqi flag on the other side.

Only a curmudgeonly reader would object to learning about "linkboys," candle-bearing escorts who accompanied timorous pedestrians around seventeenth-century London at night; or about "moon-men," who rode ahead of coaches or carriages holding a pole topped by a globular lantern.

Krystal writes, "Only a curmudgeonly reader would object to learning about 'linkboys,' candle-bearing escorts who accompanied timorous pedestrians around 17th-century London at night; or about 'moon-men,' who rode ahead of coaches and carriages holding a pole topped by a globular lantern".

Adults £5.50-£8.50, children £6.50, Civic Centre, Cardiff, session times and booking at cardiffswinterwonderland.com Mari Lwyd, Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys 31 December, 11pm-midnight Headed by the Mari – a long pole topped with the skull of a horse – the torch-lit procession sings and recites poems and rhymes all the way to the town square, where the party continues into the morning.

Outside, wooden poles topped with likenesses of human heads stood in clumps as commemorations of deaths and marriages.

Slalom, ski race that follows a winding course between gates (pairs of poles topped with flags), devised by British sportsman Arnold Lunn (later Sir Arnold Lunn) in the early 1920s.

All the Baining groups used, in addition to masks, dance headpieces made of painted vertical panels or poles topped with images painted on bark cloth.

Fluorescent tape is arranged like the spent contents of a can of Silly String, and there are movable poles topped with red flags, as if to mark the holes on a fairway.

Indeed, though the streetscape is cluttered with tall green bus stop markers, fat flare-based poles topped with traffic lights, battered bike racks and other protrusions, there is nothing quite like Mr. Lipsmeyer's headless pole, or half-pole, or whatever it is.

In Ipswich in 1841, gangs smashed windows around the venue of the hustings and waved poles topped with the severed heads of sheep.