vacuum tube
Example Sentences
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Yet another is a human-controlled device that uses a vacuum tube to suck up the apples.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025
It accelerates electrons within a long vacuum tube to high energy and near–light-speed, while magnets steer them around the ring.
From Science Magazine • May 3, 2023
At the bank drive-through, they watched endorsed checks whoosh through the vacuum tube toward the teller waiting at the window.
From Washington Post • Feb. 6, 2023
In the 1920s, once the vacuum tube and the triode had been developed, commercial radio that broadcast news, music, and radio plays became available as well.
From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022
At first I thought the radio’s vacuum tube had blown, but then a man’s voice came on the radio.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
