the tube

Example Sentences

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Maybe the tube just irritated something, I thought.

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

But the wave inside a tube, since it is a sound wave already, is a longitudinal wave; the waves do not go from side to side in the tube.

From "Understanding Basic Music Theory" by Catherine Schmidt-Jones and Russel Jones