Sentence examples for power pylon from inspiring English sources

As the spoils increase, so do the dangers; the spectre of tragedy looms over the landscape like the massive power pylon that bestrides the misty field in which Swifty and Arbor graze.

And in Guaviare, the guerrillas share some of the blame for the lack of infrastructure: a 2015 Farc attack on a power pylon left the remote jungle region disconnected from the national grid.

Well, I have no intention of climbing a ruddy power pylon, but I can't find the way to the shore.

Bridges, pipelines and power pylons are not being blown up each day.

The power pylons were attacked overnight, apparently in a campaign by the National Liberation Army.

Parts of San Salvador were blacked out when rebels blew up four power pylons near Apopa late Thursday night.

One of the worst storms to hit South Australia in 50 years knocked out 22 high-voltage power pylons.

Through the Manning Alliance, a rural protest group, they had already stopped an electricity company from plonking a network of giant power pylons across their farms.

Nearby there were power pylons being refitted, and the timber packing crates for the components would have been burnt – we used them as floorboards".

The police have accused the guerrillas of toppling more than 450 power pylons since 1982, blacking out the capital at least 15 times.

When the 22 high-voltage power pylons were blown over, a huge chunk of power generation was cut off from the rest of the network.