How to use "pole" in a sentence

Sentences

Inside the closet, shirts and jeans began to swing wildly on the pole from which they hung, and some clothes fell to the floor.

A single mercury-vapor pole lamp at the entrance shed fuzzy purple light over the first third of the parking lot

We're low men on the totem pole

An engineer told me that this was done by a man crawling forwards with a flag on a long pole