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

Reducing the oxygen in the tube furnace limits how many oxygen atoms are available, allowing the desired rock salt structure to form.

From Science Daily • Dec. 4, 2025

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

When the tube below it is loaded with pieces of wood, it first exposes them to a vacuum, to open up the wood's pores, says Mr McCann.

From BBC • Nov. 6, 2025

Once more Roy Baty sent a laser beam cutting at him, missed, dropped the tube and ran somewhere deeper inside the apartment, to another room, perhaps, the electronic hardware abandoned.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick