the tube

Example Sentences

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With the pressure inside my throat from the tube and the pressure outside the windpipe from my thyroid, maybe there was some damage to the nerves.

From Slate • Apr. 18, 2026

This trapped air keeps water from filling the tube, which prevents it from becoming heavy and sinking.

From Science Daily • Jan. 30, 2026

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it’s very hard to get it back in,” Trennert wrote.

From Barron's • Nov. 18, 2025

I watched my blood snake through the tube stuck into my arm as I sat under a canopy erected by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health at an Altadena church.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 2, 2025

To Pascal, this seemingly bizarre behavior proved that it wasn’t an abhorrence of the vacuum that drove the mercury up the tube.

From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife