Definition: 1. A hollow object in the shape of a pipe or tube. 2. A long hollow pipe made of metal, plastic, rubber, etc., through which liquids or gases move from one place to another.
Use 'tube' in a sentence:
1. That's Warwick Road, just opposite Earls Court tube station.
2. These bacteria that live inside the tube worms; the tube worms provide them with hydrogensulfide and carbon dioxide.
3. An examination is carried out before the insertion of the tube.
4. When I was dieting, that was when my social life started going down the tube.
5. If you tie him to a blown-up inner tube, he floats.
6. I took the tube then the train and came straight here.
7. Compared with ordinary people's blood (in the left test tube), nanna's blood is oyster white (the right test tube).
8. Agronomists studying the herb have discovered that it produces large amounts of histidine, an amino acid that, in test-tube solutions, renders these metals chemically inert.
9. The tube worm has no mouth or digestive organs.
10. After supper, we'd sprawl on Mom's bed and stare for hours at the tube.
11. We know they smear a liquid on the tube, but we don't know where they secrete it from or what its chemical composition is.
12. Wind blows through the tube and makes it fly and dance around.
13. I would be able to stay on the Piccadilly Line and get off the tube at South Kensington.
14. I had to change the inner tube, in the mud and the snow.
15. In London, the use of the Tube has ballooned.
16. Please help me buy a tube of toothpaste on your way back.
17. Pitcher plants use yet another strategy, growing long tube-shaped leaves to imprison their prey.
18. Heat the glass tube to the point that it can bend.
19. Give the tube another squeeze.
20. The most distinctive of these was something called the tube worm.
21. More rarely, the tubes have been malformed from birth.
22. He travelled by tube.
23. The country was going down the tubes economically.
24. I work in the extruded tube business.
25. The tube of the tube worm is really, really long.
26. He had the presence of mind to put his emergency oxygen tube in his mouth.
27. When they dropped a stone into a wide tube, the water level raised in a connected narrow tube.
28. She puts a piece of plastic tubing in her mouth and starts siphoning gas from a huge metal drum.
29. He prefers travelling on the Tube to riding in a limousine.
30. Her stage outfit of hot trousers, over-the-knee boots and a tube top was a bit much.
31. The fallopian tubes connect the ovaries with the uterus.
32. The only components required, are six feet of plastic tube, and a container to catch the water.
33. I went out today and bought a tube of toothpaste.
34. His doctor removed his feeding tube.
35. Each hole leads to a small tube that runs to your nose.
36. Just take hold of the tube and squeeze.
37. The only components required, though, are a six feet of plastic tube, and a container — perhaps just a drinking cup.
