tube
Example Sentences
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Broadus had detailed her infant’s health issues in December, describing her daughter in a poem as a “miracle wrapped in tubes and tape” with “lungs trying to catch up to the life inside her.”
From Los Angeles Times
There was a bottle suspended over his head, and clear fluid dripped from the bottle down a tube and into his left arm.
From Literature
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In one case, a six-legged robot devoid of electronics moves its legs to walk when air is pumped in and out of a tube.
From BBC
Except you don't need to look through a tube to see it.
From Literature
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But when we finally got into the ward, Grandpa Dodzi was hooked up to tubes and wires, unmoving and unconscious.
From Literature
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