tube

Example Sentences

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We are the tiny beings inside the metal tubes confronting him on the water.

From Salon

Doctors have since moved his stomach up to bridge the "gap", but it's been a long road and he still has a feeding tube while he develops his swallowing.

From BBC

“All these tests and tubes,” said Tante Jans, who believed in them implicitly, “what do they really prove?”

From Literature

Once upon a time, information arrived printed on paper, rolled into a tube, and tossed through the air to arrive on a lawn or doorstep.

From The Wall Street Journal

That case involved two Belgian teenagers, who were arrested in possession of nearly 5,000 ants, mostly stored in test tubes.

From Barron's