PYLON


Meaning of PYLON in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

electricity

An electricity pylon was knocked over and one person was knifed.

On Saturday night, an electricity pylon near the site was blown up, causing power cuts in the Disneyland hotels.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A crew chief and gunner in the pockets behind them manned the two machine guns on the new pylon mounts.

Each stood at the ready, one eye on the pylon , the other on my raised arm.

For selection, a pylon is a minor provocation.

Near the bottom, the trail swooped around the pylons of a chair lift.

The skyline is dominated not by spires, but pylons.

There is nothing uglier than a redundant ski-tow out of season, with its pylons marching up a scarred, broken hillside.

They position their pylons anywhere they choose and act as though they were still the strategic industry that they were once defined as.

What on earth can Mr Hague do to stop the pylons?

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