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

Then on the last day of shooting in Papua New Guinea the tube driver and the movie star took a walk along a remote beach.

From BBC • Jan. 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

Our Englishman has looked through a telescope and a microscope; he owns a pendulum clock and a stick barometer—and he knows there is a vacuum at the end of the tube.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton