NOUN
- 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.