1860 examples of tube in sentences

Breathing through any tube, such as a piece of card or paper rolled into the form of a pipe, will do as a substitute for the bellows.

Here the chief huntsman took the guidance of the party, keeping in front of the line in which we were ranged, and watching through a pair of what might be called spectacles, save that a very short tube with double lenses was substituted for the single glass, the movement of the hawks, which had been released in the wood below us.

In the centre of the solid floor, levelled to the utmost perfection, was left a circular pillar supporting the polar axis of an instrument widely differing from our telescopes, especially in the fact that it had no opaque tube connecting the essential lenses which we call the eye-piece and the object-glass, names not applicable to their Martial substitutes.

In this chamber, not upon a screen but suspended in the air, presently appeared an image several thousand times larger than that of the crescent Moon as seen through a tube small enough to correct the exaggeration of visual instinct.

" While Dick and Sam jacked up the axle of the automobile and put on a new tireinner tube and shoe combinedSam set to work and cleaned up the roadway, throwing all the glass into the bushes.

As soon as the feelers get hold of a small animal they carry it to the opening of a tube in the centre.

You can imagine the Periwinkle's mantle as a tube enclosing the animal's body.

We saw how the starfish forces the shells open with the help of its strong tube-feet.

Standing in tube or bus, facing the way you are going and not holding on to anything is very good practice at home.

The tube, a wooden stalk about two feet long, is changed when it becomes tainted with use; for the people of the East (unlike some in the West) like their tobacco clean.

You may even see a submarine dive down into green water, see the torpedo slid into the tube, breech-block closed, and"Nowfor Kaiser and fatherland!"by means of an image thrown on a screen from the periscope, see the English cruiser go up in a tower of water and founder.

Similar incidents carrying apprehension (as Lord Macaulay would say) to the breezy interiors of a thousand shanties on the same fatal morning, the domestic circle would know no name so expressive as hrac for that fatal tube through which man, ingenious in illegitimate perversion, daily compels the innocent breath to discharge a plumbeous hail of rhetoric.

They speak to us on mountain tops, and if we descend into the Tube, they are there.

Our essayist discloses but an imperfect inkling of knowledge on the subject of capillarity in barometers, when he speaks of this complex action as equivalent to the attraction between the mercury and the glass tube; and he commits a yet graver mistake, practically speaking, in reiterating the long exploded error, that 'the weight of the atmosphere at the level of the sea is the same all over the world.'

Q. Is a tube of a large diameter more liable to collapse than one of small diameter?

Because its power of resistance is much less than a tube of small diameter.

A. Multiply in inches the circumference or square of furnace, by its length, then multiply, the circumference of one tube by its total length, and this product by the number of tubes also taking into account the surface in tube sheet, add these products together and divide by I44, this will give you the number of square feet of heating surface in boiler.

A. Multiply in inches the circumference or square of furnace, by its length, then multiply, the circumference of one tube by its total length, and this product by the number of tubes also taking into account the surface in tube sheet, add these products together and divide by I44, this will give you the number of square feet of heating surface in boiler.

It has never dawned on his mind (if he has one) that that I40 pounds mean I40 pounds on every square inch in that boiler shell, and I40 on each square inch of tube sheets.

In a few minutes the same dismal moan, long drawn out, came down the cavern, which acted like a speaking-tube between us and the outer world, and conveyed a timely warning.

The room in which we saw the experiment performed, was at a temperature of 43° Fahrenheit; the clothes of the bed were of the same temperature: the lamp is conical, and has no tube; the wick is merely inserted in it; the charge is two ounces of spirits of wine.

A stomach-tube would have solved the difficulty, but, of course, I had not one with me.

Then, introducing the other end of the tube into the gullet as far as its length would permit, I cautiously poured a small quantity of the permanganate solution into the extemporized funnel.

To my great relief a movement of the throat showed that the swallowing reflex still existed, and, thus encouraged, I poured down the tube as much of the fluid as I thought it wise to administer at one time.

I cleaned and put away the syringe, washed the tube, and then, returning to the bedside, endeavoured to rouse the patient from his profound lethargy.

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