tube
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Todd Montgomery pops the lid off a small tube and taps out hundreds of mosquitoes into the backyard of a suburban home outside Washington.
From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026
For the entirety of his short life at the neonatal intensive care unit, he had the cannula through his nose to facilitate his breathing and a feeding tube between his lips.
From Slate ● Jul. 19, 2026
In March 1989, a midday tube rupture at the Chevron refinery in El Segundo sent cleaning solvent-filled steam into the air and trashed the paint jobs on about 2,000 neighboring cars and trucks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026
A nearby store is smaller, with a single coffee pot and a tiny selection of branded items like Styrofoam coolers and tube socks.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
And reaching across me he would yank a wire from its housing or twist a tiny tube from an assembly.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
It was also the size of a school bus, had more than 17,000 vacuum tubes and sucked up 150 kilowatts of electricity an hour.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
The doctor asked Nevins about specific life-sustaining measures like feeding tubes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Every summer, lawns fill with colorful "silly sprinklers," whose looping and twisting tubes send water spraying in unusual patterns.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 17, 2026
His nose is too small for oxygen tubes to sit comfortably so doctors have bandaged and taped them into place.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
The river of pus continued to ooze out the drainage tubes.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
This device comes in two forms, tubed and tubeless.
From BBC ● Dec. 14, 2024
The Faroe Islands is a self-governing archipelago within the Kingdom of Denmark, where there is also a strong affinity for meat served in tubed form.
From Salon ● Nov. 18, 2024
For trans men, testosterone and mastectomy were common, but genital surgeries remained rare, in part because phalloplasty had only minimally evolved beyond Gillies’s tubed pedicle of the 1940s.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2022
He was a tall Dane, holding a tubed black device that he called a smoking gun.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 4, 2016
Mrs. Vervain began to look at the sketch through her tubed hand; the painter made a grimace.
From A Foregone Conclusion by Howells, William Dean
I clearly remember seeing the movie when I was young and being very disturbed by the scene when the government arrives and drapes the family’s house in plastic sheets and tubing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
Certain lots were found to have internal tubing tears, which risk under-delivering insulin to patients.
From Barron's ● Apr. 30, 2026
Made of plastic tubing and rope, they can be cheaply and easily made.
From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025
Performance videos show her surrounded by IV tubing through which a blood-like liquid flows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
Later, after Aisha changed the IV tubing and raised the head of the bed like I’d asked, I thought about what had happened to me.
From "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Hosseini
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