How to Use totem pole in a Sentence

totem pole

noun

• The low man on the totem pole or the top guy, there’s none of that with us.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2019
• The third digit seems to be how high a chip sits on the totem pole in terms of speed.
  — Sean Hollister, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2019
• Sacrificing guys at the low end of the totem pole for the guys at the top.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 20 July 2019
• This summer will be the first time the group has made and moved such a large totem pole.
  — Washington Post, 19 June 2021
• Climbing to the top of the ugliest dog totem pole is no easy feat.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 25 June 2019
• Her nurse asked me to rank my pain on a totem pole of emojis.
  — WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023
• The totem pole once stood in the late Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens’ office.
  — Riley Rogerson, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Mar. 2023
• Women — all women, from the handmaids on the bottom of the totem pole to the Wives at the top — pay the price.
  — Elena Nicolaou, refinery29.com, 6 June 2019
• In a movie centered on the marginalized, Yo-Yo is the lowest on the totem pole.
  — Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 14 July 2023
• Elvis Peguero, the next reliever on the totem pole, had pitched in five of six days.
  — Journal Sentinel, 30 June 2023
• The totem pole has been on loan to the institution since 2017.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 4 Oct. 2019
• Margaret thrills to the uncertainty of the moment—and to the idea of being pushed from the top of the totem pole.
  — Julie Miller, HWD, 8 June 2018
• But finding a spot for the enormous totem pole in a city filled with red tape has been tough.
  — Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2021
• Even people far down the Twitter totem pole have worked that out.
  — Felix Salmon, WIRED, 5 June 2018
• But that one opinion can be just as wrong as that of the lowest person on the totem pole.
  — David Murphy, Philly.com, 20 June 2018
• But sound might be last on the totem pole, so people now, in the last two years, listen with their eyes.
  — Mark Elibert, Billboard, 14 Feb. 2022
• Newer are small totem poles and gnomes that wear a Cheesehead wedge.
  — Mary Bergin, chicagotribune.com, 2 Dec. 2019
• The House of Tears Carvers' first totem pole journey took place after the 9/11 attacks.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 11 July 2021
• This meme is a totem pole for Nazi youth in training, the standings in a pennant race of killers.
  — Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 30 Jan. 2022
• For a player already low on the totem pole, injuries lead to pink slips.
  — Zak Keefer, Indianapolis Star, 24 Sep. 2017
• In groups with alpha males, monkeys lower on the totem pole may have to sneak around to mate.
  — Elizabeth Preston, Discover Magazine, 4 Aug. 2015
• The totem pole will then be returned to its original site in South Bentinck.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 19 Feb. 2023
• The totem pole has been there since 1999 as a way to continue telling the Tlingit story.
  — Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Jan. 2021
• Kake makes claim to having the world’s largest totem pole carved from a single tree – a Sitka spruce.
  — Dan Fellner, The Arizona Republic, 26 Aug. 2022
• Motown was one of those things that whoever had the hit record was on top of the totem pole, let’s put it that way.
  — Seth Abramovitch, Billboard, 18 Jan. 2021
• At this point, especially me, guys are fed up with being at the bottom of the totem pole in the NFL.
  — Ryan O’Halloran, The Denver Post, 8 Sep. 2019
• The Nuxalk Nation's totem pole was stolen and sold to a museum.
  — Zoe Sottile, CNN, 3 Mar. 2023
• There was a dress, this beautiful column, that was a totem pole.
  — Chadd Scott, Forbes, 26 Aug. 2022
• The totem pole was carved in the mid-1800s by Snow’s great-grandfather Snuxyaltwa Louie Snow, whose spirit remains in the totem pole and will not be at rest until it is returned to its ancestral home, the chief said.
  — Alaa Elassar, CNN, 19 Feb. 2023
• Bottom-up experimentation, on the other hand, focuses on leading with the preferences and needs of the workers at the bottom of the totem pole.
  — Jane Thier, Fortune, 20 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 6 Nov 2024