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totem pole

NOUN
  1. a tribal emblem consisting of a pillar carved and painted with totemic figures; erected by Indian tribes of the northwest Pacific coast

How To Use totem pole In A Sentence

  • The conference began with a Wednesday evening welcome reception, held at Chicago's Field Museum, where 28 mostly Illinois breweries had set up beer stations among two stuffed elephants, a couple of totem poles and a tyrannosaur skeleton. Beer: A celebration of craft brewing
  • It's very much the bottom of the totem pole of the entertainment industry. The Sun
  • The totem pole would have had to be a lot better than it looked to make up for all that. Times, Sunday Times
  • He found the totem pole beside a deserted coastal village.
  • This totem pole is carved from/out of a single tree trunk.
  • This totem pole is carved from/out of a single tree trunk.
  • My point is that he is pretty far down the totem pole. The Sun
  • But the item was identified as a rare totem pole from the early 20th century by an auctioneer who stumbled upon it when he visited the house. Times, Sunday Times
  • The totem pole was created by two local carvers.
  • If there's a genre lower on the commercial totem pole than drama, it might be theatre criticism.
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