Sentences with 'poles'
Example sentences and phrases with the word poles and other words derived from it.
• « However, the two countries were in many respects poles apart: Britain was an advanced industrial economy with a liberal constitution and a monarchy whose real political power diminished over time, while Russia was an overwhelmingly agricultural - even feudal - economy with a powerful autocratic head of state: the tsar. »
• « However, in some places and at certain altitudes, not even the summer sun can turn the ice into water. These altitudes, which vary from 5,500 metres in the tropics, about 4,000 metres in, for example, the Alpine range and sea level itself at the poles, are called the limit of perpetual snow. »
• « He used this knowledge to advocate the use of lightning rods: metal poles connected to wires that direct the lightning's electrical charge to the ground and save wooden houses in cities like Philadelphia from catastrophic fires. »