| 单词 | tube |
| 例句 | I look away, hiding a grin, and inhale sharply, flexing the best I can while I lift up my shirt and attach the tube to the button sticking out of my abdomen. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z So getting hold of mercury was no problem; it was the glass tubes that were hard to obtain. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Behind the facade lies a vast floor with no halls and no doors—just a gigantic room, doctors and nurses behind white masks, test tubes and pipettes, incubators and gurneys. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z They swim or ride inner tubes to a tiny, lush island in midstream, then rest and hide until they see a chance to make it the rest of the way. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It involved a large wooden roller drum, a cylinder with holes for special test tubes called roller tubes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z A tube ran from the box to a needle that entered his arm. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z In those days people didn’t linger and fool around like people do now, with tubes hanging out their mouths and making doctors rich and all this. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The test tubes were some sort of weapon that he was using to sabotage them. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z I stop a safe distance away from her and follow her eyes to the baby, more tubes and wires than limbs. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z He cut off a foot of one-inch-wide aluminum tubing, and it looked awfully small. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Then they went on looking through the glass at anemones, sea cucumbers, and tube worms. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “But we’re going tubing tomorrow morning if you want to come.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The tubing showed up on the back porch two days later, leaning against a far corner, along with some bar stock as well. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He gestures toward the winding curves of the Splash Magic River, where the riders sit in tubes and float along a moving channel. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Lily rolled shirts and pants and skirts into tight tubes and placed them back into her largest case. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He went over to his racks of materials, selected a steel tube, and cut off fourteen inches of it with a hacksaw. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A bell was fitted into the top of the tube, and it could be made to ring, so it seemed there was air present. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Instead of having people clamoring at us for sample tubes, you couldn’t give them away,” Gow recalled. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z "Doña, excuse our dropping in on you," the man is saying with false politeness that seems as if it is being wastefully squeezed from a tube. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z And I said, “Um, it’s called a cannula. These tubes give me oxygen and help me breathe.” The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “She had some fluid in her lungs and we had to drain that. That’s what the tubes are for.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z The cap was off a tube of toothpaste, and some toothpaste had leaked out. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “I used a steel tube with a butt weld down the length of it. We don’t have much of the seamless kind. Too expensive. We used what we had on your last rockets.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A button of grayish ooze collected at the bottom of the test tube—a tiny pill of dead and dying cells. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He looked up to see Taylor pulling the tube from her mouth. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z Behind the door is the room with the entrance to the tube. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z He won’t unplug my breathing tube or overdose me with morphine or anything like that. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z With the other boys in attendance, I tossed the tube in the fire and had the door half closed when it went off with a huge whoooosh! October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A doctor, James Alonzo Gannon, then shoved a hard feeding tube down their throats and poured in a concoction of two raw eggs mixed with a pint of ice-cold milk. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It took him another second or two to place the headset on his own head and position the small microphone tube in front of his mouth. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z She picked up the roll of toilet paper and placed the stumpy doll leg into the center of the cardboard tube. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z I dig through a drawer, find a tube, and hand it to him. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Without a second thought, I climb into the tube for a break. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z For the next week and a half, the boys continued to dig in and around the area where X-Ray had supposedly found the gold tube. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z It does this along a tube that runs through a valve in the Hab's wall. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The inner tube was bitterly salty—but the outer was not only edible, it was delicious. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Our Englishman has looked through a telescope and a microscope; he owns a pendulum clock and a stick barometer—and he knows there is a vacuum at the end of the tube. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Then he swirled the Q-Tip in a test tube full of distilled water and capped the tube. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The stories were mimeographed and stuffed into the brass and velvet cartridges which the pneumatic tubes ate. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z An older man sat on the edge of his bed, oxygen tubes hooked under his nostrils as he struggled to clip his fingernails in Room 415. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z “What are they?” asked Bronwyn, undoing the cloth to reveal a hunk of brownish meat with little tubes shunting out of it. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Cold air radiated from a towering indoor fountain that sprayed water over coiled copper tubing, trickling down by some new science to form blocks of ice at its base. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He unrolls the plan from its tube and spreads it out on the dining table, securing the corners with paperback books he grabs off the bookcase. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z To boot, Onofre’s TV antenna was so tall, so elaborate, so pronged, and so replete with squiggling copper and aluminum tubing and boosters, that it looked like a DEW-line radar interceptor in Greenland. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They splashed their way through into the front of the shop, where they found a chaos of floating bottles, tubes, cardboard packets gone soggy. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Running is nice but so is sitting in the tube. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Hugh was not in the lab when late on a midsummer June night I went back to shut down the X-ray tube and to develop the photograph of a new TMV sample. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z She twisted about so that she did not have to look at the laser tube; the beam would enter unperceived. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Braking, he managed to bring the car to a staggering, careening halt; he slammed off the motor and got out his laser tube. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z She was supposed to be with him, not eating tube cookies and speaking in fairy tales. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The vast majority are old people—specifically, old white women with tubes in them, yelling and moaning. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z It’s a hollow metal tube, tapered slightly at one end. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The crunch of bone when it is sundered, the sliced flesh and the tubes of blood cut through, shocking the bloodrun and disturbing the nerves. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Plastic tubes were connected to beeping machines next to Albert’s bed. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I carried ration water for traveling in a plastic tube in back of my saddle cantle and watered her in my hat. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He asks Theo to send him some tubes of paint before he leaves Paris: three of zinc white, four of Veronese green, and a tube each of cobalt, ultramarine, emerald green, and orange lead. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Give them names like the ones on the backs of Gram’s paint tubes. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z From Simeon, who now had the newspaper and rolled it up into a tube. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z We can imagine these wormholes as tubes running through a fourth physical dimension. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z In those days the atom had not been split and few of the chemicals that were to duplicate radiation had as yet been conceived in the test tubes of chemists. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She came to the bed, placed a tank in the cart, and connected it to the tube while I took off the BiPAP snout and placed the nubbins into my nose. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “Don’t look!” she says when the formula gets to the end of the tube. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z The tube was gold in color, but Stanley didn't think it was real gold. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z She is drinking liquid protein now, a bluish fluid that comes in tubes like astronaut food. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z When it cooled, I picked up the aluminum tube. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It involved a glass test tube in a special holder, suspended over an angled mirror. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z This works a little bit like the waves in tubes, above, but the waves produced on membranes, though very interesting, are too complex to be discussed here. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z As Gey flew from one lab to another, demonstrating his culturing techniques and helping to set up new laboratories, he always flew with tubes of Henrietta’s cells in his breast pocket. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z First a solitary thin tube of green, then two leaves opened up from the stem—one on each side. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “At the conclusion of the meeting,” he said, “you will each receive a toothbrush and a tube of paste for every member of your family.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Another suggestion was to attach one end of a rubber tube to an air pump while sticking the other end into the wound until it reached the bullet. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The oxygen tube was up his nose now. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And we had to move the tube going into her arm so that I wouldn’t lie down on it. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Lil with a kerchief on when I came in, which she pressed down, dragging her tubes up with her arms, pressing down the kerchief so that I couldn’t see that she had no hair. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She chanced a glance behind her and saw the blow tube at the man’s mouth. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z With five people holding her down, she was able to fight off all attempts to force the tube into her mouth and down her throat. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Shows me a tube stuck into the ceiling of a house. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z There seemed to be more tubes invading her today, giving her medicines and air and who knew what else? A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z So they open their jaws wide, they sit up, they jump through paper-covered hoops, they crawl through tubes, they walk backwards, they roll over. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z I caught my breath then quickly got the tube patch kit from the shelf and went up to the cash register. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z For a while we just hung there, passing the breathing tube between us. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z For as much as half an hour nothing came out of the tube; then one more cylinder, then nothing. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z She and the lantern-jawed medic snake a tube down my throat, attach a bag with a bulb to it, and start pumping. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A light dress, silk stockings, shoes without scuffs, her tube of lipstick. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Through the gaps in rubber inner tubes and children, Werfel saw his beloved Skardebek darting down toward him, her little black eyes fixed on his eyes. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z It comes from a small tube running through the center of the tank. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z He’d also heard that television emitted possibly harmful electronic rays and he was skittish about spending too much time in front of the ubiquitous tube. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Pieces of tubing were torn from the wall, and two water wheels and all the wind chimes were missing. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I open one of the doors off the main corridor, hoping to find a window so I can reorient myself, but I find only a ransacked laboratory, beakers and test tubes scattered across each counter. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z If he wasn't going to produce the tube, why did he make Stanley give it to him? Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z On Wednesday, two minimally supervised medical students removed my chest tube, which felt like getting stabbed in reverse and generally didn’t go very well, so they decided I’d have to stay until Thursday. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z She showed Will and Lyra how to gather a particular kind of mollusk by finding their breathing tubes just above the sand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He lifted his eye from the tube, blinking. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Using some channel iron found behind the machine shop, we built what looked like a miniature oil derrick and placed it over the scale as a brace for a tube that held the rocket. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A doctor dabs some orange stuff onto the side of my chest and then rams a small plastic tube in me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Above him was a bright green tube that looked like a midrib of a large leaf. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z That point would be marked by a gigantic thunderclap, after which Alvarez would haul his gangly frame into the tube to strip away the stalagmites and stalactites and buff the surface smooth. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z On the ceiling, moths fling themselves at the dull gray light tubes running the length of the corridor and I hear the papery flapping of their wings. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He turned and handed Cole a tube of ointment. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z The doctor held a rubber mask attached to a tube in one hand. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Then the cathode-ray tube glowed like an imitation, feeble TV image; a collage formed, made of apparently random colors, trails, and configurations which, until the handles were grasped, amounted to nothing. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Metal boxes cover the tabletop: tubes, coils, switches, meters, at least one gramophone. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z And then she’s gone, which is what I wanted, but somehow I am as hollow as my tube. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Eventually, the Tuskegee staff grew to thirty-five scientists and technicians, who produced twenty thousand tubes of HeLa—about 6 trillion cells—every week. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z X-Ray looked at the tube, then rubbed his dirty glasses on his dirty shirt and looked at the tube again. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z We watch from the point of view of one of the tributes as she rises up through the tube from the Launch Room and into the arena. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Surrounded by the same beeps and tubes and monitors and noises from the hall. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z You ever seen liquid food pumped through a tube, straight down a man’s throat into his belly? The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Once she’d sterilized the cubicle, she lit a Bunsen burner and used its flame to sterilize test tubes and a used scalpel blade, since the Gey lab couldn’t afford new ones for each sample. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The hatch in the helicopter is opened, and my stretcher with all its tubes and lines is loaded in. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She patted my arm condescendingly and reached for a length of plastic tubing that hung nearby; it was connected to a pipe that ran up the ladder to the surface. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Three messages had slid out of the pneumatic tube while Winston was working; but they were simple matters, and he had disposed of them before the Two Minutes Hate interrupted him. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I was getting frustrated with my sore head and my bad memory and the tube that prevented me from talking. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Soon she was dividing them into four tubes, then six. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Doctors came running up from every direction with needles, lights, tubes, rubber mallets and oscillating metal tines. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He was creating a tube for color television. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Then get the hell away from there and let me have that tube,” Jason said. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z At dawn, they gathered up their tubes of blood and ran to the airplane and handed the samples to the pilots. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I undid the water tube, took one, two steps toward her front end, and felt the click/slam/push of a rattlesnake hitting my ankle. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Among the figurines were two dogs and a jaguar, each of which had thin tubes joining its two front feet and its two back feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I ran all the way from the library to the tube station with my handbag clutched against my chest to hide what I could. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind the overpass rose a tangle of neon blue tubes—three giant water slides behind a billboard: White WaterRapids. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Each of them held a black tube in their hands as if it were a gun. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Against the walls stood big bins holding every kind of bolt and screw and gear and lever and rod and tube, all of them black with age and jumbled together. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z An arm stretched around the Berg door above, holding the tube- weapon out to take random shots. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z In his clenched fingers the laser tube felt hard but he could not lift it and aim it. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z She looked down at the gold tube, frowning, then looked up at my bland, gormless grin. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z With infinite precision, the tubes were lifted out, brought around, and then dropped into the exposed compartments. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Treading water, he unzipped his pocket and took out the tube. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He put the tube of lather, without re-capping it, somewhere into the enamel background, out of his way. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z When I tell her about tube lady in the bed next to my mom's, she starts laughing and tells me I'm making it up. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt as though he had just been forced through a very tight rubber tube. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z There were no windows, for there was no scenery to see in the subsurface vacuum tube. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z She worked the lipstick back into the tube, looking mildly annoyed. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The tube is loose from the machine and jerking around like a mad firehose. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I went from a training bra to a D cup, but could still wear tube tops without a bra. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Nancy settled nearby with coffee, sipping quietly from the cup, her alert eyes fixed on the tube. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This was to hold dead monkeys and tubes of blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a box of watercolors with twenty-four tubes of color and three brushes and a pad of heavy art paper. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z I see the flow of liquids, pumping through the tubes, watch a wall of dials and lights that mean nothing to me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Short pants, tube socks, and Reeboks would have been a little off-center but not weird. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z He would lay it down on the bleed table, and then Captain Haines, the Green Beret, would insert a needle into the animal’s thigh and draw off a lot of blood into various tubes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw the angels, or at least I imagined I saw them, watching us scrap, stepping forward and catching the car batteries or jagged lengths of steel tubing that Dad launched across the yard. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Agnew inserted two rubber tubes to drain the pus filling the channel that extended down from the bullet wound. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Even her shelf in the bathroom was a wondrous sight—a skyline of bottles, tubes, and jars of all shapes and hues. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Then she put the little red pencil back inside the Smarties tube and put the top back on. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z In mid-1951 he developed a radically new design based on placing microscopically thin wires just behind the tube’s glass viewing surface. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z His Roman candle is still poised in the air, but the tube is smoking, empty. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z When he stood up he found himself looking into a laser tube. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Nearby, the three Mondragon kids were stretched out on the threadbare carpet, intent on the tube. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The sugar water in the IV tube hardly moves. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Another bag held shampoo, a bar of soap, a tube of toothpaste. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z With both hands, he lays hold of a larger branch, and the inner tube swings onto the silt and grass. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Then, looking at Leon, Goober saw the teacher as if in technicolor, blood beating in his cheeks, his moist eyes like specimens in laboratory test tubes. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If that was really her lipstick tube he'd found, then she must have lived somewhere around here. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Instead of curling in my tube tunnel, I choose a swing next to Madge. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Before I pulled out of the tube by his office, I looked back at her, standing by the door. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As she dropped, her spinning tubes went into action and she let out thread. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Connected to it is a tube, and connected to the tube, in the corner of the room, is a huge tank. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z And one day Julie sat down at a desk next to me and put a tube of Smarties on the desk, and she said, “Christopher, what do you think is in here?” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z If you put the runny Ebola blood in a test tube and look at it, you see that the blood is destroyed. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Swallowing, I don’t care so much about—so they feed me through a tube, so what? Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z There are flowers, sickly smelling, wilting in a vase, tubes going into her arms and nose, the sound of terminal breathing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Neil and Buzz began by putting on special underwear, into which thin plastic tubes had been woven. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Another sign that civilization was going straight down the tubes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Then he unrolled and clipped together four small cylinders of paper which had already flopped out of the pneumatic tube on the right-hand side of his desk. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Her tubes flop around as she looks from the door to the curtain around Mom's bed and then back to the door. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Third, Roberval devised an experiment where a carp’s bladder which had been flattened and sealed tight was placed at the top of the Torricellian tube. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z There were wristlets, short tubes of wool to keep the wind from whistling up soldier’s sleeves, and there were knitted helmets with only a hole in front to look out of. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The hovercraft lands and Cinna and I go back to the ladder, only this time it leads down into a tube underground, into the catacombs that lie beneath the arena. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He uses a black inner tube, which is bulky and easy for Border Patrol agents to spot. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z My breath catches as we all stare at a rack of toppled test tubes. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Inside were blue and pink and light brown tubes and coils and odd-shaped pellets which all fit together like a puzzle. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z If you blow across the mouth of a length of tubing you can make a musical note. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The particular activity that Reggie had undergone while his brain was being imaged in the tube is called a dual n-back test. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “You should check out these Snow Whites on the tube, man. They each got two boyfriends and they messing with both of them.” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She makes room for me in the bed on the side without any tubes, and Dad pulls a chair up close. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She handed me a neon pink bucket containing a fresh tube of toothpaste, a new toothbrush, and a small bottle of shampoo. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z It was a complicated test stand with tubes and springs and pistons. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The doctor ran tests, so many tests, so many punctures in the little girl’s arms, so many tubes hooked here and there. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z I watch as the 4 friends get into the clover leaf-shaped inner tube. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z A tear in his neck exposed a tangle of silver tubes. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z IVs dangled next to their beds, respirators breathed for them, tubes fed them, and what little life they had left was kept going by machines. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Miss Ohio clutched the tube to her chest. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z She's on her back with a pair of pale green tubes running from a clip under her nose to a panel on the wall. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I unpacked a transparent plastic tube of powdered cream of chicken soup, and filled it up with water. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The year before that, a young man’s forehead was beaten in with a metal tube. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z A nurse ran and fetched a laryngoscope, a tube that can be used to open a person’s airway. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the gas station Shadow bought a Clean-U-Up Kit, which contained a razor, a packet of shaving cream, a comb, and a disposable toothbrush packed with a tiny tube of toothpaste. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z She picked up her billfold, but they all got down on their hands and knees, crawling around to pick up little brass tubes of lipstick and her mirror and powder puff. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z She felt for the capsule hanging in its tube on the chain around her neck, she rubbed the metal tube, warm from her breast, against her cheek, and her courage came back. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But another great container for standing waves actually holds standing waves of air inside a long, narrow tube. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Once in a long while, four times so far for me, my mother brings out the metal tube that holds her medical diploma. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Half the tube sock is now dangling from my stump. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Inside the Mark I, these sparks packed the power of lightning bolts, ripping through the drift tubes and leaving behind what Pief Panofsky described as “spectacular stalagmites and stalactites of copper.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The space at the top of the tube has been expanded to include a bell, on the theory that if there was a vacuum no sound would be audible. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Reggie said he was nervous, the idea of getting into the tube, having his head examined. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He was completely bandaged from head to foot, hooked up to all kinds of machines, with tubes and wires everywhere. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Usually what I do is just hang around and look at my comic books and watch the tube, or go shopping with Gram if she really makes a fuss. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z I blew my nose, threaded the tubes around my ears, and put the nubbins back in. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z For the next weightlessness test, she had to eat from a tube. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z Livingston threw himself into his new task with characteristic single-mindedness, even training himself to operate the tube on some early patients. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He knows that Enrique cannot swim, so he paddles him back and forth on the water in an inner tube to quiet his fears. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z They’d been drained only a week before Gus died—I watched the amber cancer water dribble out of me through the tube— and yet already they felt full again. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z She took my hand and put the tube in my mouth. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I should have known it the moment I saw these fins. They’re spring-loaded because they have to snap out when this device leaves its storage tube.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “When we put the tubes down her nasal passages she was gagging on them,” the nurse said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z From her bag she takes a black tube and twists off the top. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z When I hear the door sealing, I lean over to the pod’s suction tube, opening my mouth. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Because Sony bought transistor licensing rights from Western Electric at a time when the American electronics consumer industry was churning out vacuum tube models and reluctant to compete with its own products. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Stanley wondered about trying to secretly take the tube directly to the Warden. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Now, if Torricelli had upended the tube in air, everyone would expect the mercury to run out, because it would quickly be replaced by air; no vacuum would be created. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Fortunately the vines here are strong and the spile and tube of medicine wrapped in the parachute are still secured to my belt. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly a figure popped out of the underbrush carrying a tube. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Ware hands me a long, very thin plastic tube. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Its outer walls are made entirely of rounded glass, but a circular tube of dark metal encapsulates the glass walls. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z I stared at the tube map of London. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood at the tube map for a very long time. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The plastic cover makes a deep, hollow sound; the glass tube sounds high, sharp. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z She led him past the engine room, which looked like a very dangerous, mechanized jungle gym, with pipes and pistons and tubes jutting from a central bronze sphere. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Way, way more than I needed to buy a new inner tube for my old ten-speed. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z He reached down and tried to pull my shirt off, but it got tangled in the tube. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z I stopped at the drugstore to buy a tube of lip gloss, too. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z In it are different-sized tubes and containers that I recognize as makeup, but wouldn’t know what to do with. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z A freezing drizzle was falling as he walked to the tube station, tiny raindrops spattering his coat, and when he got there, he was absorbed by how many blobs of saliva were on the stairs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z There’s a rubber thing like the top of a mushroom, and a tube of toothpaste that isn’t toothpaste. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A first-aid kit with bandages and tubes of antiseptic paste and small scissors. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z It was fascinating to think about all the things you could learn there: Galileo’s acceleration experiment, the dissection of rabbits, and making materials change state in a test tube. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z District 13 confiscated my tube of skin ointment for use in the hospital, and my bow and arrows because only guards have clearance to carry weapons. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z This tube ran all the way up to the second-story balcony, where the people that worked there would keep filling it up with loose Legos, all shapes, sizes and colors. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “Your friend, he was badly—very badly—injured, you understand. He had rubber tubes coming out of him everywhere. At first—” He cleared his throat. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Dr. Nawaz had told me that would happen, on account of the breathing tube they had slid through his vocal cords. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The Turks tip their plastic sacks onto the sand: tire tubes and life jackets. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z The germs attack the lining of the air passages, nose, throat, and bronchial tubes, which results in a deep cough and sore throat. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She walked back and threw the tube into the sea, holding onto the pole. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She ran the tube under her nose and took a deep whiff. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Later, in the living room, Gil settled into the couch with his oxygen tubes in his nose. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Looks down the tube to see where it comes out. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z The constant probing of the president's wound, insertions of tubes, and surgical incisions created plenty of opportunities for bacteria to enter Garfield's body. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z They were astonished the same way Omakayas had been the first time she saw the trader unfold a seeing glass, something he called a telescope, a long, shiny tube that grew in his hands. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z But when it was upended in a dish of mercury, there was no air to replace the mercury in the tube. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I should know better than to just turn on the tube. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But in some, the shape of the instrument — usually a tube, block, circle, or bell shape — allows the instrument to ring with a standing-wave vibration when you strike it. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Gradually the plant engineer removed the tubing to use to patch other outworn equipment at the Hediondo. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “But to retire it,” Rick said, “because it’s needling you—give me that ” He struggled to pry the laser tube away from Phil Resch. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Bare fluorescent tubes and a rack of ribs hang from the ceiling, obscuring his profile. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t certain what I was looking at, but whatever it was, I wanted to compare the area of the fins with the area of the tubing. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When secretions built up and clogged the tube down the Sherpa’s throat, Hunt would suck the tube clear with her mouth. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z He was running toward them, his face set into a grim mask, the tube of glue crushed and empty in his hand. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z As soon as I’m done eating alone, I head to my tube tunnel, curl against the plastic, and quiet my mind. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z “I did. But then, when everything was bubbling in the test tube, I had a brainstorm. I added a secret ingredient.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z He went and sat down at his desk, put his feet up on it, next to a long, long tube. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Truth is, I could put this tube on my shoulder with Calvin inside of it and make the climb home just as fast. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z A nurse came bustling in then to check all my tubes and wires. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z It’s like having Cinna beaten to a pulp while I watch from my tribute tube. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Above that is a plastic sack full of clear liquid with a tube hanging from the bottom. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Grain elevators are tall, hollow concrete tubes, like silos. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z When I took them off, both legs were just hollow fiberglass tubes. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z My hands were all twisted up with clear tubes, and something was taped across my face, under my nose. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z Raytheon Company, a maker of radio tubes in Cambridge, Massachusetts, had applied for a patent on a machine that sounded suspiciously like his spiral accelerator. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “I can’t believe this. Why do you always do this? Why can’t I wear what I want? It’s not like I’m wearing a pair of Daisy Dukes and a see-through tube top.” I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Weary drew back his right boot, aimed a kick at the spine, at the tube which had so many of Billy’s important wires in it. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z And he clamps his skinny self to that tube all the harder. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z He could see a yellow stain on her arm around where the tube went in and little purple bruises all the way along the inside of her elbow. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z Golden tubes connect them to arcana meters and large vessels filled with blood. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The women arrived in a small room and climbed into a small tube, called a nuclear counter, that provided little room to move. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z She set a tube of paste and a cup by the door, next to Papi’s shaving things. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I enter her long, thin chamber, which has a computer and two chairs and an array of tubes and robes on hooks on the wall. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Instead, they form along the length of the tube. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z When the light on the wall changes to green, he sends the tube forward into the tunnel. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The tubes are not in me anymore and the glass jars are gone. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I followed the tube poking through bandages on my chest to a container halffilled with columns of water. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “I never thought there was anything powerful enough to blow out a steel tube like this. Bursting pressure’s got to be in the neighborhood of twenty thousand pounds per square inch, even with the weld.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z It involved him being tied with all of his limbs, like his arms and his legs, onto the frame of his bed with the rubber tubing. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They peered inside it and fiddled with the tubes and wires. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The boy makes a sound like air coming out of an inner tube. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I run under the monkey bars, past the swings, by my tube tunnel. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z “They’re not going to get me,” she mused, the amorphous “they” being hospitals, the system, and anything else that “sticks tubes in you and takes your money at the same time.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a picture of one cowboy killing another one pasted to the television tube. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Over and over, in the years after 1647, scientists filled long glass tubes, sealed at one end, with mercury and inverted them in baths of mercury. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The air blown up into Garfield's room through tubes was cool and dry, and the noise from the engine was nearly eliminated. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z In her lap is a kelly green Bermuda bag with pink piping and wooden handles; inside the bag is a tube of 7UP-flavored lip balm that she draws from time to time across her mouth. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Then I will teach you. Your dad should not have a problem with that. Come on. You can work while I work. How long should your tube be?” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I head outside, straight for my tube tunnel. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z At home, sugaring time would come soon, and already we’d carried the pails and the taps and the tubing down from the barn loft and begun to wash them all out. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z He'd tell her where he really found the gold tube if she wouldn't scratch Zero. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Dylan pops out from behind one of the glass tubes. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z She perched children on top of the goblin, the elf, and the inner tubes. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Afterward there would be a little reception in one of the classrooms, punch and cookies under fluorescent tubes. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The inner tube lurches, sloshes, and bounces along. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I gagged from the smell but bent forward to inspect the place above his belly button where they’d surgically installed the tube. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Their bullets, their little tubes of metal that fly up and down the block...that's nothing natural. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Officer Crams deftly frisked him, and came up with Rick’s service pistol and laser tube. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Our understanding of genes has reached such a level of sophistication and depth that we are no longer studying and altering genes in test tubes, but in their native context in human cells. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Usually I don’t talk at all in my tube. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z This day she was sitting behind the counter reading a Bible in a tube of sunlight. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she taps out what’s left of the glitter from her test tube into their dirty palms. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I wet the brush and rearranged the tube of paste to prevent my parents from asking any questions, and fell asleep with sugar on my tongue. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The nun’s blood arrived at the C.D.C. in glass tubes in a box lined with dry ice. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He could tell just from picking up a toothpaste tube whether it contained potassium nitrate. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The morning of Henrietta’s first treatment, a taxi driver picked up a doctor’s bag filled with thin glass tubes of radium from a clinic across town. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “I have some aluminum tubing I could use. But welding on a washer—that is difficult. Soldering it would be easier.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He opened the tube and squeezed some of the cream onto his finger. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He met the girl, Cleotilde, a few days later, at a shopping center, in a McDonald’s whose windows looked out onto the dank entrance of a tube station across the street. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I gently touch my side, lifting my shirt to unhook the tube, surprised that the skin around it is even redder and more inflamed than it was before. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Near the tube station she passed a stone drinking trough and could happily have sunk her face in it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I had a plastic tube for siphoning gasoline, but the diameter was too great. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Stretching open the tissue and muscle to expose the circuitry of the fallopian tubes, he tied each in a bow, and there were no more children. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Then the surgeons inserted a rubber drainage tube. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “That whole neighborhood’s going down the tubes,” Jimmy Fioretos had advised one Sunday after dinner. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On the other side of the turnstiles, there are giant floaty tubes for rent. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z It was built in stages in the second and third centuries a.d. atop a deep, 300-foot cave created by a lava tube that may have represented the place where human- kind emerged onto the earth. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I pulled out the test tubes and test tube rack we’d need for our lab. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Flames and rods and tubes and circles, not to say ordinary bulbous bulbs of every size and wattage and color, dangled like fruit from an ecstatic entanglement of wire vines. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z A few minutes later, during which Luba carefully kept the laser tube on him, a large harness bull arrived in his archaic blue uniform with gun and star. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z But she took my hand as though I were a frightened toddler and led me toward it, bringing the tube along. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z With small precise strokes she traced the contours of her mouth and clicked the tube shut. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I gave them a quick swipe with my T-shirt, laced the tubes behind my ears, and put the nubbins back in place. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Besides, he didn't know if the Warden would find the tube "interesting." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z But when I sit on the chair at the foot of his bed, looking at his white face through the tangle of gleaming plastic tubes and IV lines, I am dry-eyed. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Geisbert poured some of the milky fluid out of the flask into a test tube and then spun it in a centrifuge machine. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He had even insisted on hanging a few items of her clothing in the closet, putting a tube of her lipstick in the medicine cabinet. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Overhead, fluorescent lights sputtered in their tubes, pleading to be replaced. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z As the air in the tube cooled and contracted, it sucked water up. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Wharton slipped a tube filled with radium inside Henrietta’s cervix, and sewed it in place. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z They have chips that are all the same shape and stack on top of each other in a tube. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Mary divided the contents of each tube into two, giving them room to grow, and within twenty-four hours, they’d doubled again. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z 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. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z You just have to find the brass tube with the right length. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Imagining their intestines going out in a similar blaze of glory, even the jockeys began to fear it, and Hawley’s Slim Jim experiment went down the tubes. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The polyester crinkled with each step as he zoomed through the tube. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z I plunk down on the sand next to Finnick and screw the lid off the tube. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Then I opened the door of the medicine cabinet and found little jars and tubes of face cream lined up inside. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As panicked marchers scattered in all directions, Sheriff Clark’s mounted possemen let loose with a rebel yell and charged, swinging bullwhips and rubber tubing wrapped in barbed wire. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z On the tube are gold circles crossed with seven red lines each—“joy” ideographs in abstract. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She watched him put the cap on the tube of shaving lather. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z Tie up the spile and the tube of medicine in the parachute and fix it to my belt with vine. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z But the tube attached to his arm, and a different one wrapped around his ears with prongs stuck up his nose, and the hanging bag of clear liquid drip-drip-dripping beside his bed? Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z She eked out the words as if squeezing dregs from a squashed tube of stale toothpaste. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z One minute I was twelve years old and wondering where I could get enough money for an inner tube for my old used ten-speed. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Yassen had brought the test tubes that were even now being inserted into the computers. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z He stole a neighbor’s coffee percolator tube, set up a sniper’s nest in a tree, crammed pepper-tree berries into his mouth, spat them through the tube, and sent the neighborhood girls running. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z To Pascal, this seemingly bizarre behavior proved that it wasn’t an abhorrence of the vacuum that drove the mercury up the tube. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The tube had now reached the other side of the cove. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Very carefully she unscrewed the top from the tube and, spreading her knees, shook out a gelatine capsule. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes he would stop outside a tube station, often by a flower or a newspaper vendor, and watch the people brushing past him. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Using a funnel made from a piece of paper, I ran water through the tubing, letting it drain into a sample container. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In six months a dozen small towns had been laid down upon the naked planet, filled with sizzling neon tubes and yellow electric bulbs. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “A year’s worth of work goin’ down the tubes in a New York second.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z They are storing part of me in a space jar—like a test tube. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z Up it glided a woman, toward him, and he knew her; he recognized her and lowered his laser tube. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Around and around they went down the tube. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z I pulled myself slowly up the ladder, and then Bronwyn, Emma and I broke the surface just enough to breathe and talk while Millard stayed safe a few feet below, the tube all to himself. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z She had made it with a penny test tube bought at Knipe’s Drug Store. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Yesterday they’d taken Tally’s final measurements, rolling her all the way through an imaging tube. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He had some tubes sticking out of his arm, and one sticking into his nose. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z They enter the elevator and within seconds disappear out of sight down the dark metal tube. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He hung the bag on the side of a cabinet and flicked the tubing going to the needle, trying to make the saline flow. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Outside, I curl in the curve of the tube tunnel, on cold plastic, eyes closed, cocooned and forgotten. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The words are long and hard to pronounce, like fal-lo'pi-an tubes. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z At first I thought the radio’s vacuum tube had blown, but then a man’s voice came on the radio. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z On the strength of a demonstration, Paramount agreed to build a manufacturing plant to turn out prototype tubes in Oakland. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He held out the tube and Rick accepted it. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z All the articles of his trade were filed away on the coast, sea cradles here, octopi here, tube worms in another place, sea pansies in another. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The hole was connected by a rubber tube to a catchment pouch made of thick, transparent plastic. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z My ankles and the back of my hand are throbbing from the tubes bringing in the blood and I don’t care about boys praying for me. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z The two most common — strings and hollow tubes — will be discussed below, but first let's finish discussing what makes a good standing wave container, and how this affects music theory. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Stanley gazed out across the lake, toward the spot where he had been digging yesterday when he found the gold tube. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z He rolled up the completed bundle of work and slid it into the pneumatic tube. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Flameproof goblins may be, but the errant fireball had given his tubes a good scouring. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z In the bow of the submarine, there were four torpedoes, and in the stern there was one torpedo tube for the remaining ten torpedoes. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z One end of the tube was wedged between his bars at stomach level, and the other protruded halfway into the narrow gallery space between cell bars and fence, like a miniature bazooka. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He handed me a piece of paper rolled into a tube and tied with a bit of string. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Yet still she lay, still she lay, a mannequin of herself, amid tubes and machines. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He took out a tube of suntan lotion, squeezed a bit onto his hand, and passed the tube on. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Bobby Gene asked, the second we hit the sidewalk, carrying the tube of rust remover. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z While I patched the inner tube, Miss Love leaned against the hood of the car, looking like she might faint. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Tuve and Van de GraafF struggled to make it work with the vacuum tubes and other apparatus necessary to produce a focused beam of charged, energetic particles. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We carried the tree home and decorated it with Grandma’s antique ornaments: ornate colored balls, fragile glass partridges, and lights with long tubes of bubbling water. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z We drop into the floor, descending through the clear tube. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z He sent some tubes of frozen serum to laboratories for testing—to the National Institute of Virology in Sandringham, South Af- rica, and to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I do look pretty bad, hooked back up to the ventilator and a dozen other tubes, the dressing from my latest surgery seeping blood. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I counted out five U.S. dollars to pay for the steel tubing and bar stock we were to use that day. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “The skin and tube look much better. You’ll be up and around by this afternoon. No crunches, though.” Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z The pressure inside her skull had gone down and stayed down, and the doctor removed the tube from her brain. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet he was not quite at the goal: simple math told him that reaching that energy would require a linear tube many meters in length—“rather awkwardly long for laboratory purposes.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z This is what he used to call his trach tube, a little plastic thingy that was literally inserted into his neck below his Adam’s apple. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z We don't understand why he's so small, has tubes coming from his arms, sleeps and sleeps . . . when we visit him. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Garfield's wound continued discharging "healthy pus" through a drainage tube, which the Bliss team interpreted as a sign of healing. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It was a twelve-pack of Life Savers and I spent the rest of the party arranging and rearranging the candy tubes in the order of my favorites. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z So prior to putting him in the white tube, they asked him to sit in a small, windowless office, and take a written test. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “Cap it off and Jinx’ll hook up that copper tubing. When the liquid separates from the mash, it goes through the tubing and ends up in this barrel.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The gentle whoosh of liquid snakes through the tubes. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z I step into the glass tube and Dylan follows. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z She tugs a series of braided cords that dangle along the wall, and a tapestry lifts back, revealing a complete wall of rose-porcelain portraits set in a curling network of brass tubing. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z With the tube in her throat, she couldn’t speak. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I imagined Abuela with tubes and monitors strapped all over her body. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Still holding the laser tube in his direction, she crossed the room, picked up the vidphone, dialed the operator. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I broke the blender when I squeezed three tubes of toothpaste and a bottle of glue into it. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Terraces climbed up the side of the mountain, with swimming pools on every level, connected by waterslides and waterfalls and underwater tubes you could swim through. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z She rolled up the scroll and slid it into the tube that the hawk wore like a pack, settled on his back between his wings. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z The bloated tube leapt up and then it was sucked in, under the wall and into a cavern. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the next few days he stops eating and is fed through a tube. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The division in the two tubes that resulted was very plain: the centre tube was white in colour, while the tube that surrounded it was decreasingly green as it approached the inner wall. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z X-Ray would first have to show the tube to Mr. Sir or Mr. Pendanski, who would then have to show it to the Warden. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z There was a cool lake for tubing, waterskiing, and fishing; a swimming pool; crafts; even archery and BB gun ranges. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Upstairs, there was a science laboratory fully equipped with glass beakers, test tubes, and a variety of scales, batteries, and chemicals. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z I mean piles of things with tubes and wires. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z As we walked towards the tube station, Dad asked, ‘Where do you two want to go?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Empty plant seedling trays and irrigation tubes lie stacked on floating shelves. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Once more Roy Baty sent a laser beam cutting at him, missed, dropped the tube and ran somewhere deeper inside the apartment, to another room, perhaps, the electronic hardware abandoned. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I cut the vine that ties the spile to my belt and hold the metal tube out to him. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z In the Lego department on the ground floor there was a gigantic plastic tube filled with blocks. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z In effect, Livingston was slotted into the same role on the X-ray tube that he had played on the eleven-inch and twenty-seven-inch cyclotrons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z We had just awakened from a short sleep and were sucking lukewarm coffee out of plastic tubes and munching on bacon which had been squeezed into little cubes, like lumps of sugar. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He could still see the tube in his mind. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z She chose a skirt and a tube top with a loose white blouse over it. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Except for the hum of the green cathode tube, it's quiet. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At first I suspected the operator, at her switchboard, might be listening, but she just went on plugging and unplugging her little tubes without batting an eye. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z As we were driving through the tube streets, there was all of this commotion because of the protests about the moon. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He realized that was why X-Ray didn't want to talk to him about the gold tube at breakfast. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z On the fifth day, the tube in my throat was removed, and I got my voice back. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Rusted pieces of machinery and torn inner tubes still littered the ground. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I sit there wondering whether to pull the tubes out of her arms, the plug out of the wall. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Junket was made with white tablets that came out of a tube, and served with a dollop of grape jelly on the top. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I study the diagrams of naked people in Understanding Our Universe, all pink and red and yellow, networks of tubes and veins and arteries and organs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Some filled tubes, others inserted rubber stoppers, sealed tubes, or stacked them inside a walk-in incubator where they stayed until being packaged for shipping. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z She pushes me down into a chair, not so frail after all, and squeezes a noisy, farty tube of goo on my head. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In angry weariness he opened the wall cabinet and collected scalpels and clamps, sponges and tubes of sutures, to put in his bag. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It requires only a small amount of water to fill the tube, but because the height is great it exerts an enormous pressure—enough to burst the barrel. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She set down the laser tube and he picked it up to examine it, to see if it carried a charge. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Then she took the top off the Smarties tube and turned it upside down and a little red pencil came out and she laughed and I said, “It’s not Smarties, it’s a pencil.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The sound caromed off the trunks of pine trees, carrying past the meager beach out over the water, where I floated on an inner tube, reading Love Story. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On some nights, when he couldn’t get enough air to swallow, Morrie attached the long plastic tubing to his nose, clamping on his nostrils like a leech. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Lawrence worked on the tube design with an intensity he had not shown since the Alpha racetrack project. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Skillets, beds, patched up spare inner tubes all hanging and dangling from the ancient cars on the outside and hopeful humanity, herded and hovered on the inside, chugging on to the muck. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z Each desk has two lamps with green glass shades, and two microscopes, old microscopes, with heavy thin tubing and brass fittings. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Matilda, holding the hat in one hand and a thin tube of Superglue in the other, proceeded to squeeze a line of glue very neatly all round the inside rim of the hat. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z The hospital nutritionist wanted to give them a nutritional supplement through a feeding tube that would be inserted through their nose. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The only part that peeked out was the tubing. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z She jumped down with the largest children, and they all started forking garbage from a heap into the cart, right on top of the inner tubes, Werfel, and Spurge. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z The three heroes hopped into their individually labeled tubes and slid down to their briefing stations, where they were surrounded by blinking computers and glowing video screens. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The puncture must have happened only seconds before—Maddie could still hear the air hissing out of the inner tube. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I pass our tube tunnel—it’s empty except for snow drifting inside. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z His insight was reinforced by a demand from the Research Corporation’s Howard Poillon that he bring the X-ray tube to a patentable stage without delay and without disclosing his design to outsiders. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z That also meant that he wasn’t paying attention when I got into his backpack and emptied a tube of fire ants from the colony I’d found in the woods. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Then he saw the little chain around her neck and lifted it clear and unsnapped the clasp—a small gold watch, a little tube, and two safe- deposit keys, numbers 27 and 29. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She pinches tubes of lipstick from Woolworth’s, packets of licorice Nibs from the drugstore. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Later, when we were checking out the tube, I asked her why she was so upset about Big Joe. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The only nourishment she got was from the IV tube sticking into her arm. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z I ran a tube through the open top and down the inside wall. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Right below the tube is a large container full of smelly garbage bags. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Calvin reaches inside one end of the tube with his brush and I reach inside the other end with mine. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Sliding a boy down a tight skinny tube. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Of these projects, he identified two—Sloan’s X-ray tube and the accelerator, not yet known as the cyclotron—as “rather spectacular and important in their early developments.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry about this thing,” she says, swatting at the tube. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The tube, called IV, and other supplies for Djo were sent by missionaries after they read in the paper what had happened to Djo and the other boys. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s got three restraints on each arm, and a tube that can dispense a knockout drug just in case he loses control. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She walked into the bathroom, returned with a tube of toothpaste, and showed us. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z The rest of it was strange to her; she could see no principle behind the coils, the jars, the banks of insulators, the lattice of tubing. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “You can’t fit that on the back of a tube of paint!” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z I tell Calvin, “We have to go down six feet? And wide as the tube? And you brought that little-bitty trowel?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z It took eight minutes for the tubes to go through, he told them. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z It's nothing more than a tube that equalizes the rover's air with the pop-tent's. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He was peeking through the lens tube at the gargoyles on the First Keep. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z All I saw were these tubes jutting out from either side of my head—like antennas. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z Suddenly he held a laser tube pointed at Isidore; then, indecisively, he put it away. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z To prevent shock and infection, he would be given fluids and antibiotics intravenously through a sterile tube and needle directly into his bloodstream. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Like an emptying tube, after a couple of minutes he collapses. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He doesn’t have any tubes or anything sticking out of his arms—not like I thought he would. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I scramble down and out the other end of my tube tunnel. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Yet I manage to swing my arm around until I rip the tubes out. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Two tubes and seventeen Popsicle sticks later, Miles’s locker was well and truly glued shut. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z They had these tubes, they were bringing the tissue blood, and we could see the blood running around, up and down. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The phone rang as Jule came out of the tube near the hostel. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z What happened in the unseen labyrinth to which the pneumatic tubes led, he did not know in detail, but he did know in general terms. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z If you put a million volts into a vacuum tube, you could be sure only of blasting the tube to bits. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Johnson was handing her a tube containing a sample when he stopped and looked at her gloved hands. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This pump had a piston that fitted snugly in a tube. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z There’s the pinching sensation of tubes in my left arm. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z He also had a feeding tube fixed in the front of his neck, which pushed lumps of flesh to the sides. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z They boo’ed in the tubes of the corkscrew stairs, rattled the wooden shutters, whined shrilly through the shot windows, stirred the cold tapestries in frigid undulations, searched for backbones. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z She marched up the steep path to where the car was parked, and she wasn’t even breathing hard as she pulled a large inner tube from the trunk. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z When it was quite late he murmured something, went to a closet, and drew forth an evil weapon, a long yellowish tube ending in a bellows and a trigger. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm Henderson, working on the cyclotron in the next room, was used to hearing the X-ray workers shout to make themselves heard over the thrum of the tube’s oscillator. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z And he came out with three tubes of Pringles and a suit coat. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z He wore a peach shirt under a baggy indigo sweater, black drainpipes, one of those studded belts that sags loose off your hips, and winkle-pickers with white tube socks, like everyone's wearing recently. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z I order inner tubes, sunglasses, and beach towels for summer. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z She finds a worn-down tube of lipstick in her mother’s wastepaper basket and hides it away, and takes it to school in her pocket. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z One by one, I empty each tube of paint into the laundry sink. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z When she believes him it’s kind of funny because Calvin is still wrapped around that tube. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Water bubbled through tubes that snaked around the warm, humid walls. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He switches it on, waits for the tubes to warm, then runs the dial carefully down the band, right to left. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z They were shining through all the gases, above the tubing and the tanks and ladders. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He said, “Afterward I still intend to look for Roy Baty. I still need you to be there. I know that laser tube you have in your purse is—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z We were connected to the institutions that supported us by means of pneumatic tubes which ran under the streets of Chicago. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, the vet just snips the tube. There’s nothing to see on the outside.” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z An oxygen tube lies across her upper lip, and a large patch is pressed against her chest. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Each woman swallowed a rubber tube so that doctors could test her stomach acids, and her reflexes were tested by electric shocks applied to her arms. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z I gobbed on the melted liquid, but I made a mess of it, the solder dripping down the tubing and the washer not on straight. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z They stuck tubes in her bladder and nose. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z She sits on the edge of the mattress, applies some blue cream from a tube to her calves and the bottoms of her feet. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I hear footsteps climbing up into the tube. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z When he read a newspaper story about demonstrations in Jerusalem, he rolled the newspaper into a tube and slapped it against his arm. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Increasing their numbers was labor-intensive: scientists had to repeatedly scrape the cells from one tube and split them into new ones to give them more space. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “How are you feeling, my janiV’ I couldn’t reply because of the tube in my throat. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He’d been given a front of his neck so a breathing tube could be inserted into his trachea, or windpipe. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Eventually, he had to be pinioned and fed intravenously or through a tube inserted in a nostril. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z People were not supposed to be twisted bone and tubes that popped out at crazy kid’s-toys angles. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The heart monitor beeped at the side of the bed, and two thin tubes snaked out of Father’s arm, connecting him to an IV stand. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z Wires were attached to her chest and to a monitor, and a tube was taped to her hand. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z “I’m just a simple working man. I’m not even a man. I’m just a kid who wanted to make enough money this summer to buy a new inner tube for his bike.” Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z His laser tube thrust out, Rick spun and sank onto his haunches facing the flight of stairs. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I told her about finding my way on the tube. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z I flew out of our bubble and into the main tube, and then out of our neighborhood and up the droptube and then across the surface. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He came out of the building, meaning to walk up to the tube station, but just then a cab drove along and he flagged it down. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The nurses work rapidly to detach the monitors and catheters and run another tube down my throat. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z And I guess now was my moment to believe in the Port-a-Cath, which was an IV tube that had been surgically implanted under the skin a couple of inches above Jeffrey’s right nipple. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctor drilled a hole in Nikki’s skull and put in a small tube—no thicker than a strand of spaghetti—to drain excess fluid from her brain to lower the pressure. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Marks held out a tube of ointment. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z We rise up and up inside a suffocating dark tube. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Inside a small compartment was a rolled-up tube of paper with a yellow card clipped to its end. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z If you go and tell your boss that you’ve found Marburg virus and you are wrong, your career goes down the tubes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder if there are other tubes, hidden ones that I might accidentally touch or break. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z He took the smaller rifle with him; also the glass tube. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Mulch gave his tubes a clearing before clambering from the tunnel. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z Suppose I tripped and fell, or dropped it, or knocked its lovely tubes against a rock? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z After three days in the ICU, they withdrew the breathing tube and transferred him to a ground-level bed. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I laughed pretty hard, hard enough that I felt where the chest tube had been. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z He had taped the clear tube of a ballpoint pen to the threaded end of the needle, and on top of that he had fixed a tennis ball. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z A tube of Dr Pepper Lip Smacker, which tasted like the soft drink, kissed a bottle of “Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z They finally said that after a year of being fed through a tube, my system can’t utilize regular food for a while. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z As I start on the second leg I toss the tube to Finnick, who eyes me doubtfully. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z An operating tank stood in the middle, the liquid drained out of it, tubes and electrodes hanging loosely in a puddle at the bottom. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z Some linoleum tile, maybe some plywood, maybe the buzz of the fluorescent tube light. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Although Obinze knew he meant the tube, the word “underground” made him think of doomed tunnels that fed into the earth and went on forever, ending nowhere. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z She peered into the tubes, laughing to herself and thinking, Nothing’s happening. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Fifty feet of heavy hose, containing oxygen tubes and radio wires, is quite a bundle. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z El Tirindaro is a subspecies of coyote known as a patero, because he smuggles people into the United States by pushing them across the river on inner tubes while paddling like a pato, or duck. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The tubing was all gone now and it was a roomy, dry, and safe apartment. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled the oxygen tube from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z The catheter bag, connected to the tube inside him and filled with greenish waste fluid, lay by my foot near the leg of his chair. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The tube lights above us flickered before shutting off. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “Let’s roll the thing up and put it back in its tube,” he said. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z His voice sounded almost too mature, as though he were putting it on a little; he sounded as though he were speaking through a tube. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z But the tubes didn’t look like any guns Mark had ever seen. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Roy removed a box of gauze, a roll of white adhesive tape, and a tube of antibiotic ointment that looked like barbecue sauce. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The doctors also took some samples of blood from her arm and put it in glass tubes. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z There were tubes and cans of products all around the sink. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I had a toothbrush in my small carry-on, along with a tiny tube of toothpaste. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “That’s the whatchamacallit—you know, the . . . the thing, it’s a chemistry term, when you put something into a rest tube that starts everything else in to bubbling and smoking—” “A catalyst.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Maya gasped, grabbed her backpack, and pulled out a tube of paper that was folded in thirds and slightly bent at the top. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z A butt weld was where the two ends of the steel sheet that made the tube were simply pushed together and welded. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z One of the fluorescent tubes above Four’s head twitches and flickers. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z At the bottom of this tube, kids could scoop out blocks and pay for them by the pound like you would grapes or nuts. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Two doors down, a vertical tube connects our row of apartments to the tunnels. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z They kept to themselves and had managed to smuggle in a tube of lipstick. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In a final, desperate act, she gave Dad an enema, pushing the tube in as far as she dared, trying to flush enough liquid through his rectum to keep him alive. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Farhad held the creature in his calloused and dusty hands and pulled a roll of parchment from the tube tied around its leg. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z There was some one-inch-wide aluminum tubing under the back porch that Dad had brought home from the mine to make a stand for Mom’s bird feeders. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Brightwell shook his head at my request for steel tubing. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He had kicked off his tennis shoes but still had on his white tube socks, and she found this oddly endearing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We are fascinated by him, goggled and bent over the stove a clamped test tube protruding from his gloved hand. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z All I had wanted was a new inner tube for my ten-speed, which I never got to ride anymore anyway, and now all this had happened. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Here is the great secret, the great mystery to an immigrant’s success, the dwindle of irredeemable hours beneath the cheap tube lights. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Distraught at the possibility that he might lose the race, Galileo frantically set about building one of his own, knowing nothing more than that the instrument involved two lenses in a tube. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z He squats down, takes my right hand into his, and careful to not bump into my tubes and wires, draws his mouth to them, blowing warm air into the shelter he’s created. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The tubes were getting taller and taller and soon there were so many of them they were pressing up against each other and up against his mother’s dress. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The return air comes back through another tube just like it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead, the doctor inserted the tube through her left nostril. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It even came as part of the packaging of toothpaste tubes. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Clear tube dripping who knows what into my arm. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z In France, Mersenne received a rather garbled account of Torricelli’s experiment and tried unsuccessfully to reproduce it, but he lacked the right sort of glass tube. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Then, two days after Henrietta went home from the hospital, Mary saw what looked like little rings of fried egg white around the clots at the bottoms of each tube. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Something about the inner tubes seemed to disturb her deeply, and she attacked them with frightening gusto. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The room is lit by a series of old-fashioned fluorescent tubes with plastic covers—they must be ancient. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z I feel around the dark wall and find a switch for turning on an unattached irrigation tube. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Never mind that the tube is taller than he is. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Their surfaces are scattered with beakers, tubes, droppers, spoons, a set of mortars and pestles, and graters. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Aunt Carrie says that doesn’t matter, because no way is Will going tubing. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z They reinsert their tubes and talk to me in soothing voices that never reach me. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Fiona dialed up a half inch of coral lipstick from a black tube and said, “Go like this,” pushing her lips out into a pout. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z It was now July and I had ridden my ten-speed—yes, my old one, though I had bought a new inner tube—over to Arnold’s house. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z Incidentally, another piece of tubing in the body, the Eustachian tube linking the middle ear to the pharynx, was also described around this time, by Bartolomeo Eustachio. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z To illustrate nature’s musical laws we can use a piece of pipe or tubing. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The boys spent their free time huddled in the Tuve attic, surrounded by cast-off batteries, glass tubes, and coils of wire. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z You could stretch the tube map into all sorts of hoops and loops and it would be the same map, as long as the junctions were the same. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z So I'll paraphrase it for you: Me: "This is obviously a clog. How about I take it apart and check the internal tubing?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z So they found a friendly civilian technician and he twisted a rubber band around their arms, and they watched while he filled some tubes with their blood. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z A blur of movement, a quick flash of something dark and small and fast bursting from one of those tubes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Blowing the 02 over the sparker, I flicked the switch on the flashlight and a wonderful jet of flame fired out of the tube. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Ralph felt as though he had a cardboard tube down his throat as he described how Grover had bought the land, built anyway, then sold it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as Winston had dealt with each of the messages, he clipped his speakwritten corrections to the appropriate copy of the Times and pushed them into the pneumatic tube. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z I gave Bob a little plastic tube of soap bubbles because it just seemed to fit his personality. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z From 1646 Torricelli’s experiment was widely performed, even though mercury was expensive and it continued to be difficult to get sufficiently sturdy long tubes sealed at one end. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I watch in horror as her cannula tubing catches again on a gap in the stone footbridge, her head jerking back as she loses her balance. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Then she held out the packet of bandages and the tube of antiseptic cream. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The work pointed him to his brother’s lab at Berkeley and David Sloan’s X-ray tube, the most powerful in the world. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I pull my arm out of the tube to show him. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z “That’s fine. Now come over to this machine and put your hand into the tube. Nothing to harm you, I promise. Straighten your fingers. That’s it.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The poster tubes I bought for packing it are leaning unopened against the wall. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z The giant metal “drift tubes” suspended inside the cylinder, which the deuteron beam would traverse, each weighed several tons. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Well before me, the engineer figured out the significance of the tubes between the figurines’ feet. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When the mercury was at the same level on both sides of the tube, the air in the closed end was at atmospheric pressure. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Opaque, silver test tubes were being fed along a narrow cage, moving forward as if to greet the computers: one tube for each computer. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z “All you have to do is put fuel in a tube and a hole at the bottom of it.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I have some flexible plastic tubing intended for minor water reclaimer repairs. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I reached down into the stocking and pulled out a small silver compact of pressed powder and a tube of pink lipstick. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z It is the brass instruments that excel in getting different notes from the same length of tubing. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Now I mushed up the soup by squeezing the tube until all the water was dissolved, and cut off the end of the tube with a pair of scissors. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And up at the top of the tube. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Inside, huge dry waterslides and tubes and pipes curled everywhere, leading to empty pools. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z They stood outside Balham tube station, which in three months' time would achieve its terrible form of fame in the Blitz. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Tuve’s version was made from copper and wire wound about a hollow three-foot glass tube submerged in a pressurized vat of oil to suppress sparking. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He stroked the fur, and under it metal tubing came to light. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z He can eat, at least: when he was younger, he had a feeding tube. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z For the next three weeks, Oshiro was stuck in a bed in the 8th Field Hospital with deeply embedded tubes draining his wound. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z My unexpected success came from using a powerful rotating anode X-ray tube which had just been assembled in the Cavendish. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z Under the right circumstances in the test tube, short nucleic acids can synthesize identical copies of themselves. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The tube was open at one end and closed at the other. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z When it was available, they also carried M-16 maintenance gear—rods and steel brushes and swabs and tubes of LSA oil — all of which weighed about a pound. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z It contained a couple of plastic tubes with screw tops. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Bolts, bent nails, tubing, rusting pennies, and orphaned keys were all jumbled together.Oliver rolled his eyes. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z The dull tubes of them beginning to move sluggishly in the cold hard light. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The tubes were tucked into individual slots inside small canvas pouches hand-sewn by a local Baltimore woman. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But when she reaches for me, there’s a tube connected to her arm. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Five days earlier I had been wondering where I could find enough money for a bike inner tube and now I was considering how I could expand my business to distribute work and disperse wealth. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z In round two the contestants were given dozens of inner tubes and instructed to stack them into tall, puffy towers, which were immediately knocked down by the afternoon's second vachette. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I reach up and the tube lands squarely in my open hand. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The jeweller was working again, bent over his bench, the tube tunnelled into his face. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Stanley could see the gold tube sticking out of some dirt on the end of X-Ray's shovel. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z He reached inside and took out a glass thing—a sort of tube with a metal rod in it, like a big thermometer. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He looked again at the design engraved into the flat bottom of the tube. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z After pouring the formulas in, we hang the bags, attach the tubing, and adjust the pump rate for how long we’ll be asleep. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z He says, “My toe must have caught on the rim of the tube. Just that one foot. But all the rest of me was heading downward. So...” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z A tube led from a glass bottle into his right arm. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just thought that could have been a breathing tube or somethin’,” Peewee said. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the men donned a mask with a glass visor and a tube that ran to a pack on his back. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z She tugged at her IV; she uprooted her feeding tube. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The sounds of swings, running feet, and games rebound against the playground walls and funnel into my tube. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z In it, a woman who said she was a teacher held a tube of toothpaste in her hand as she walked around saying, “Toothpaste doesn’t excite me. Good checkups excite me.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z But as I start to work my way out of the band, I feel a cold liquid seeping into my vein from one of the tubes and almost immediately lose consciousness. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The Rad Tab called the process “snouting,” after the pig-snout shape of the tube that was to carry the beam from the vacuum chamber and out into the air. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z After that we prime the pump to get all the air out, our eyes meeting as we wait for the formula to make its way down the tube. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Then Isabel or Nate would have to jab a tube into the hole, to suction it, so that he could breathe again. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z “How do you do this every day?” he asked as I disentangled my shirt from the tubes. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Did Coach West remember how much I struggled with that stupid aluminum tube? A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z Calvin Chumsky is not going to let go of that tube. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z It turned out that at the age of thirty-one, Moore had hairy-cell leukemia, a rare and deadly cancer that filled his spleen with malignant blood cells until it bulged like an overfilled inner tube. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He goes, “I leave the rest to you,” and he and Mr. Woodwell sit on the dock and watch me fill the seams with tubes of caulking compound. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z The biggest challenge was posed by the immense energy coursing within the drift tubes. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I stand over the bleeping tubed lifeless form that is me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He heard the tube well at the corner being pumped into urns. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z As the manicurist unpacked her tools, I pointed to a tube that looked like an accordion. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z ‘Are you crazy? Even if you don’t get stuck in the tube, you have no idea how deep it is.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I say, “Hey. Looks a little small. Isn’t our tube bigger?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z It was at a tube station that he met the Angolans who would arrange his marriage, exactly two years and three days after he arrived in England; he kept count. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z We set it upside down over the top of the tube. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Reaching into the right-hand top drawer of his desk, Inspector Garland fumbled about, then brought forth a laser tube; he swiveled it until it pointed at Rick. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Each valve opens an extra length of tube, making the instrument a little longer, and making available a whole new harmonic series. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z That morning, Dr. Agnew had enlarged the incision on Garfield's back, taken out pieces of bone, and inserted two drainage tubes. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It was a gold tube, about as long and as wide as the second finger on his right hand. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z She works her way down, pulling the hair out from under the pillow so it streams down my chest, hiding some of the lines and tubes connected to me. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Somehow Kat found the way back to the tube. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z He removed a section of both fallopian tubes, tied the ends of the tubes, and sutured them shut. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z When I was really little, that was mainly because there were too many medical issues, like my trache tube needing to be cleared every hour, or reinserting my feeding tube if it got detached. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z She asked the women, “Did any of you break a test tube? Do we have anyone here who stuck himself with a needle or cut himself?” The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If the instruments and drainage tubes were not properly disinfected, they would carry dangerous bacteria deep into the body. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z It bounced up and down in its tube, attacking the scale. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A blue button-sized bruise was visible on the other arm, where the boy had yanked out the intravenous tube before fleeing the hospital. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He ordered his torpedo into its tube and was only seconds from firing it when he called off the launch. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Four people and four voices are too many in the tube tunnel. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z “The tube tunnel is where I go when I need to recharge with quiet time, like this, in quiet places.” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z He drew a long tube and at one end made a stick figure face. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He’s holding a tube of zinc ointment in one hand and is dabbing Rosie’s punctured skin. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Your funeral. I’ll look in tomorrow. She’ll sleep. Give her water and warm soup through the tube if she wants it.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly he stopped, put the hobbits down, and raised his curled hands to his mouth so that they made a hollow tube; then he blew or called through them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A black shirt reached for Taylor, who rolled and retrieved the filled foundation tube. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z "That's the one," he whispered, pointing out the hole where he had found the gold tube. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z One of them advanced on us, holding a scorched metal tube with fins attached to it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z 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. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The street she was looking for was three turnings past the tube station, itself another replica. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Usually when I get the tube I am with Kat and Mum and sometimes Dad. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z My job was to hold these glass tubes over fre and stretch them into test tubes. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “We sealed the leak with this chest tube.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z My left arm is bandaged but the tubes dangle off stands by the bed. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z She still lies in the 1CU at Beth Israel Hospital with the tube of an air pump taped inside her mouth to make her lungs work. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “How many tubes did they have hooked up to him? What was the name of the stuff they were putting into him? Were they giving him blood? What was his heart rate?” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Rooms which should contain other passengers in stasis, instead hold walls of hexagon bed tubes puzzled together like a honeycomb. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z And the tube that led from a dripping bag into a needle that got stuck in Lil's arm somewhere underneath the tape. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Getting toothpaste back into the tube doesn’t even begin to describe it. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He rested peacefully in his white bedsheets amid tubes going in and out of his body, and screens with green numbers and lines on them, and beeping noises. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z In the years following Henrietta’s death, using some of the first tubes of her cells, researchers around the world made several important scientific advances in quick succession. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z She takes the cap off a black tube about the size of one of my fingers, revealing a red stick. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z She was propped up, looking very pale, and there was a tube leading into her arm. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He sat mutely for hours staring at the tube, playing video games; he seemed stoned or depressed almost beyond words. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A tube that hangs down and leads...into the crook of my elbow. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z I told Mr. Bykovski I was building a rocket and needed a washer or something welded to the bottom of a tube. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z A swift current grabs the tube and sweeps it into the river. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Like the picture, Rick thought to himself, and, with his own laser tube, killed her. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z “You are fortunate to have me as your scientist, old boy, or else I think you’d still be blowing up little aluminum tubes.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Charlie mumbles something about my mom getting stuck in a tube of chocolate. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z He tugged at a clear plastic tubing on my left side. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Oiled, with tube bones cut from bronze and sunk in gelatin, the robots lay. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Mrs Wormwood said to him, "You should read the label on the tube before you start messing with dangerous products. Always follow the instructions on the label." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z ‘Go up those stairs. Keep straight on through to the tube exit and it’s opposite. Huge. You can’t miss it,’ he said. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can feel it deep down inside me. It’s a ticklish feeling. A powerful itch that’s located somewhere on the high side of my sphincter tube.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We kissed for a while and then lay together listening to The Hectic Glow’s eponymous album, and eventually we fell asleep like that, a quantum entanglement of tubes and bodies. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z He was hooked up to four or five different machines and had a very thick tubes going down his throat with more going up his nose. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z He unscrews the back plate, waggles the tubes back and forth. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Horace thought of her now, gray and washed, the needles in her throat and the rubber formalin tubes hanging down from the ceiling. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “We can’t patch an artery like an inner tube. By the way, how do you get him to let you take his blood pressure?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Emma handed me the breathing tube, and we passed it among us. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Liberty and Bonnie ask if they can go tubing. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Leo pulled out a can of kerosene and a rubber tube and lashed them to the thirsty new engine that the orb was helping him assemble. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Inside the Sinbad Restaurant, fluorescent tubes flicker on. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z I back away, run outside, straight to my tube. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Mercury was poured into the tube to fill the U bend at the bottom, sealing off the air in the shorter arm of the tube. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z I focused on my breathing as Jackie handed the tubes back to me. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z The river of pus continued to ooze out the drainage tubes. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z While Nicholas played a hand-me-down Nintendo on a television with a busted tube, Christopher plays 3-D chess on the family’s Dell computer. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z The polyester crinkled with each step as he worked his way through the tube. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The inner and outer tubes separated cleanly and easily. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Right now, in surgery, the doctors have to remove my spleen, insert a new tube to drain my collapsed lung, and stanch whatever else might be causing the internal bleeding. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But the way I feel about it is this: The tube is Calvin’s find. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z A thick black tube ran from the mask down to a nozzle on the floor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z My hands are anxious for brushes and paint tubes, mostly to give them something to do besides tremble against my legs. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The tubes had cracked and broken during shipment, and raw, rotten blood had run around inside the box. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z So we laugh while we paint that whole inside of the tube. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z I stuck the end of the rain-catcher tube in my mouth and I drank and I drank and I drank. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Figure 3.11: The standing waves in the tubes are actually longitudinal sound waves. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Ben’s hamster was cute and had an incredible setup with a big cage and all kinds of connecting plastic tubes and hideouts. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Taft and Will want me to take them tubing—drive the small motorboat while they float behind it in an inner tube. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z When he had lived upstairs, he had once tasted toothpaste when a careless guest left the cap off a tube. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z The tracks and ties were all metal now, and the lights in the tunnels were different, not red incandescents but flickering fluorescent tubes that glowed a sickly green. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Between the recognition that the Torricellian tube is a pressure gauge and the invention of the atmospheric steam engine there was no intervention of an extraneous factor. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Water would be pumped from their backpacks into their suits and through these tubes, cooling their bodies while they were out on the hot lunar surface. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There seemed to be a tube of some kind in my throat, a tube that had stolen my voice. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Nosa, who had left right after graduation, picked him up at the tube station and drove him to a pub where other friends soon gathered. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z ‘He shows his travel card, or puts it through the barrier, and then he’s back. Back here! We’re just round the comer from the tube.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z They removed the chest tube early the next morning, and Armand gave the staff the go-ahead to let me sip apple juice. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I took a few moments to visualize a thick round glass tube leading from my hand up and into the basket like a funnel. The Million Dollar Shot 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He was careful not to dump any of it in the hole where the gold tube was actually found. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z And when little Freak showed up one day with these shiny braces strapped to his crooked legs, metal tubes right up to his hips, why those were even more cool than crutches. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z He felt quiet and at peace with himself when he was padding around a hot zone in a space suit, carrying a rack of test tubes that held an unknown deadly agent. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z If I’d had my tubes tied years ago, I wouldn’t even have needed the operation. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Staring at the glass tube that housed the watches, he found himself getting angry. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The staffs indifference to the energy fields produced by the cyclotron and X-ray tube was even more remarkable. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z It was a dusty, battered tube of ordinary antiseptic cream, such as Will could have bought in any pharmacy in his world. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Everybody has misplaced someone,” murmurs Madame Manec, and Marie-Laure’s father switches off the wireless, and the tubes click as they cool. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z When the tube in my throat was removed, I had had another call with my father—one where I could actually speak. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Outside, I head straight for my tube tunnel, my footsteps on the ladder a prelude to peace and quiet. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z He points at the bag of liquid slowly dripping into the tube in my arm. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z There were dozens of little folding snack-tables, all covered with twisted tubes of paint, most of them crusted dry like shriveled snakes, but some of them alive and oozing ribbons of color. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z She pulled down the map rolled into a tube at the front of the room. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z There was a big hole in the recently whitewashed wall, and a tangle of rubber tubes and pipes was sticking out of it. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z The rafts are a few planks of wood lashed on top of two tractor tire inner tubes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z This accurate description somehow got mistranslated as ‘tube’, but modern medicine seems to be stuck with the inaccurate version of the term.’ The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Once, when blood came out of Djo’s arm into the tube, I got so scared I called the orderly. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He bought chocolate in the village, and some peppermints in a tube. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “Come on,” she says, and we head for my tube tunnel. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z The older sets are the easiest to fix: simpler circuitry, uniform tubes. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He doesn’t have a trache tube in his mouth anymore that keeps him from talking. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z But thinking of Tariq was treacherous because, before she could stop, she saw him lying on a bed, far from home, tubes piercing his burned body. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z And being packed together inside a small tube magnified the rudeness of segregation. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z If I hadn’t of got my tubes tied, it could of been me, say I was ten years younger. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Salk looks exactly the way you’d imagine a scientist: glasses, white lab coat, holding test tubes. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z I snorted as he picked out a small tube of sunblock from a rack. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Each Sucker consisted of a yellow cardboard tube filled with sherbet powder, and there was a hollow liquorice straw sticking out of it. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Calvin tells me, “You just painted my hand, Mason. And you keep twisting the tube.” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z I heard a vacuum activate, sucking the indent’s regurgitated Oreos down the tube and into the floor. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z There was Mother with her eye pressed to a metal tube called a microscope. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The invention was not a success, because the height of liquid in the tube also depended on the changing pressure of the air outside. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z The whole meadow is littered with knocked-over tubes and blackened boxes, empty shells that are still venting plumes. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She pulled out a tube of lipstick and, with a weak hand, applied the melted color to her lips. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z There were photos too, of ice skates and soccer balls, tubes of lipstick and red high-heeled shoes. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Winston dialed “back numbers” on the telescreen and called for the appropriate issues of the Times, which slid out of the pneumatic tube after only a few minutes’ delay. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z David searched through his knapsack, bringing out what looked like a tube of hair gel. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z I try to sit up, but needles are sticking out of my arms, and tubes snake through the blankets. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z When it’s recess, I head to my place on the playground: inside the tube tunnel, my burrow. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Big-legged women with pink kitty tongues roll money into green tubes for later on; then they laugh and put their arms around each other. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “But you need to show the thickness of the tube.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Looking through that long tube at a pheasant made you feel as if you were taking a walk with him. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z There, down tubes which fed into the cellar, it was dropped into the sighing vent of an incinerator which sat like evil Baal in a dark corner. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z After he had dressed himself, he laid out his blood tubes and syringes on a mat. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He seemed to be falling down a large, dark tube. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z That means he pulled the wood out of the bark, leaving a tube. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z And then one—just one—nice long tube. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z “The casements are in the alley behind the shop, stacked with regular tubing stock,” he said. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Overhead, slender tubes of light beamed down on the display cases. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z We walked for a ways through some tubes and so on. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A moment later Spike belched out a new vial - a stoppered glass tube no bigger than Leo’s finger. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z They carried her under their arms like a tube of carpet, with the chains slapping back and forth against her body. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Like when Noah was mean and banged on the tube?” Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z Turns out Calvin is after one of those big cardboard tubes. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z “Dr. Gannon...forced the tube through my lips and down my throat, I gasping and suffocating with the agony of it,” Dora Lewis wrote. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z At one point she turned and told them she would be happy to walk to the tube on her own. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It delivered two liters of oxygen to me each minute through a cannula, a transparent tube that split just beneath my neck, wrapped behind my ears, and then reunited in my nostrils. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “And then . Nicole blew hard into the tube and the makeup splattered the ground. “It’s hypoallergenic and noncomedogenic, but you still wouldn’t want it in your eyes.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z She put the tube in her mouth and blew, her cheeks puffing out with the effort, then took a breath from it and passed it to me. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Ralph shook sand out of the deep tube. "-mooed like a cow," he said. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z “It’s not going to be easy. He’s going to have machines and tubes hooked up to him. He’s not going to look at you or say anything.” Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z On the other side of her Phil Resch put his hand on her shoulder and Rick saw the bulge of the laser tube. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Grammy eats from a tube of saltine crackers; the crumbs on her chest remind me of the sand I just left. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “Seeing you with all those tubes in your body was probably the lowest moment of my life, Jus. To think I spent all that time being stupid, then almost lost you?” Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z We took our snow tube and June’s toboggan and switched off about a hundred times. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z In 1643, Torricelli took a long tube that was closed at one end and filled it with mercury. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I slide in and lean forward, noting that Beth has tube socks on both her arms. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z And if patients have tubes in them, they’re in their arms, where they don’t interfere with things such as tender kisses or makeup. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And the lady said to me, “Take the tube to Willesden Junction, honey. Or Willesden Green. Got to be near there somewhere.” The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z My right arm has several tubes that extend into the wall behind me. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z All you need is a tube to look through, a string, a weight, and something with degree markings. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s standing on a small ladder looking up at a big metal tube coming out of the ceiling. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “But I make excellent tube cookies. I think it more than makes up for any freeloading.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Enrique has seen him take a number of men and boys across the river, always at night, usually one or two at a time, paddling furiously in their inner tubes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z I can see it coming out through the translucent tube. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z There is only an efficient cause: the balance of weights; and a structure or form that makes the balance possible: a sealed tube up-ended in a bath of mercury. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I think we’ve got a collapsed lung. Get a chest tube in her and move her out!” the nice red-haired medic screams as she passes me off to a team of nurses and doctors. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They immediately laid him down, removed his clothing, and stuck an IV tube into his arm. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z Now he took off the radio’s back cover, revealing a tangle of tubes and wires. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But the tube failed on the day that Crocker came out to the Rad Lab to see it in action. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The tube had been busted, all right, but like JimmyTrotter described it, there was something beautiful about it. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z He saw Maester Luwin on his balcony, studying the sky through a polished bronze tube and frowning as he made notes in a book. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Gingerly she fished the chain out from her bodice, unscrewed the little tube, and shook the capsule into her hand. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z At intervals a complicated system of hydraulic tubes and pumps would cause the towers to telescope slowly upward, a journey of several hours, then allow them to sink slowly back to their original configuration. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Oh, your mother thought you seemed upset at the emergency room and when they put the tubes in ... Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The seamless steel tubing I told Mr. Caton to order was delivered. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He came out of Liverpool Street tube station just after four-fifteen that afternoon, still wearing his school clothes: dark blue jacket, gray trousers, striped tie. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The nurse smiled as she injected the medicine into my tube. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z There were tubes and organs and the redness of working parts that no longer worked. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z When I get home from work, the acrylic tubes are still on the desk, but not the way I left them. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z From time to time, after her breathing tube was removed, someone would see her shape her lips, as if to sigh or speak. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a little cardboard tube attached to it, connected with thin white strings. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The bottom of the tube was placed in the water, so when the piston was raised, the water level followed the plunger upward. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z My stomach drops as I slide down a short metal tube. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z There were no other antennas in tubes, and I said so. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She dumped a load of old inner tubes on top of them. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z Later, as Stanley sat sprawled across an understuffed chair, he tried to think of a way to tell the Warden where the tube was really found, without getting himself or X-Ray into trouble. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z But all he did was to say, “No, thank you,” and fend off the proffered tube of tablets. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew Teach couldn’t move, but like, I hadn’t expected him to be hooked up to so many tubes. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Strapped in their life jackets or holding inner tubes, some with nothing, they shuffle close, urging us on. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z From a metal rig hung a plastic bag of ginger-colored fluid, the intravenous tube disconnected and dangling to the floor. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z If we could only juxtapose one eyeball of this sanctified woman and a television tube, both being roughly of the same shape and design, what a phantasmagoria of exploding electrodes would occur. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A fan would be positioned to blow over the ice, pushing the cold air through a tube that extended up to the window and into the room. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z After everything she had done to atone for her crime, after she had turned her marriage into an arctic wasteland and allowed a surgeon to tie her fallopian tubes, consanguinity wasn’t finished with her. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The trooper handed it to him, and he turned the tube over in his hands. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z I’ve seen August after his surgeries: his little face bandaged up and swollen, his tiny body full of IVs and tubes to keep him alive. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z I pay for the medicine and Mother’s tubes and goo and work my way back through the aisles. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z And oh yeah tubes of goo to keep your skin tan and wrinkle-free. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z When she talked about a building, she didn’t say, “You know, the big one shaped like a tube of lipstick.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Tangles of rubber tubing sprouted out of the tank. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z She was not depraved enough to end this vicious cycle by throttling him in a strait jacket, by sealing him up in a cement-block tomb lighted by fluorescent tubes. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She used it all winter, whether or not her lips were really chapped, and every spring she hid the tube from Mom and wore it until it ran out. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Along the western edge of this courtyard, extending from the back of the kitchen, ran a white, translucent tunnel, something like the tubes that conduct football teams onto the field. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z And you know what Mr. Gregory had given me and was now rolled up in a long tube in the back of the car? Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z With his laser tube, Rick systematically burned into blurred ash the book of pictures which he had just a few minutes ago bought Luba. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z As El Tirindaro hides the inner tube, he spots the Border Patrol. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She produced an oblong cake of soap in a black case, a hydrating mask, a vial of cell renewal drops, and two tubes of face cream. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Instead, Gey sent them via plane in tubes with a few drops of culture medium, just enough to keep them alive for a short time. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I put the tube kit and crumpled five-dollar bill on the counter. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The ejected matter would still be in orbit about Jupiter, as Io is, and supply the great tube of atoms which surround Jupiter at Io’s distance. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Francis, with his interest in theory, had neglected to fasten securely the rubber tubing around his suction pump. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The counter is dotted with little plastic tubes and glass bottles of my makeup. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z Plastic tubes hung out of each nostril, draining phlegm and mucus. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z It was just a metal tube, with two seats on each side of a narrow aisle. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z He dropped the tube into his large pocket on the right leg of his dirty orange pants. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z The loosely packed soil on the Fowl estate was very well aerated, and a lot of that air had entered Mulch’s tubes along with the soil and minerals. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z It was made of rough, brown paper twisted into a tube, one end further twisted tight like a candle wick. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z He saw several bottles of nail polish, polish remover, a couple of lipstick tubes, and other jars and powders. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z It felt like all the tubes led to one central place in which something evil sat, stewing. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If nature truly abhorred a vacuum so much, the mercury in the tube would have to stay put so as not to create a void. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Other times INS helicopters fly too low, whip up waves, and swamp inner tubes, riders and all. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It was a device that looked like an inverted umbrella with a good-sized catchment pouch and a connecting rubber tube. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z But if you put a few thousand volts on the tube and built up to a million volts on the particles, the glassware would survive, and the particles would accelerate. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The maester was peering through his big Myrish lens tube, measuring shadows and noting file position of the comet that hung low in the morning sky. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z El Tirindaro slips into the water behind the tube and kicks his legs beneath the surface. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Tanisha’s up there with all the B’s, and here I am standing in my holey tube socks, sandwiched between all the M’s and N’s, with Beatriz tailing right behind me. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z On the chain were strung two safe-deposit keys, a gold watch with a fleur-de-lis pin, and a little steel tube with a ring on its top. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z If she had been standing closer to the explosion, she might be like Uriah, hooked up to tubes in the hospital, her mind quiet. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z There is a transparent tube that goes from the bag of sugar water that the doctor hung above Djo’s head. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z My chest, where they’d cut me to insert the chest tube, hurt when I raised my arm, and my stomach throbbed every time I leaned over. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z As I recall, we barely managed to get a test tube of water out of it—but I’ll bet Kelton could make a functional one. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z The troopers looked at the tube, and then took it away from Quentin and looked at it some more, snapping the fins closed and back open again. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z When, on a day after a trip to collect coal, I cough once, loudly, through bronchial tubes already packed tight with phlegm, my mother frowns. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z There were beakers and bottles and test tubes everywhere. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z He was fragile, half the size he should have been, and he wore oxygen tubes because his lungs had never fully developed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He gave Doon a tool belt, too, in which were wrenches and hammers, spools of wire and tape, and tubes of some sort of black goop. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But by pouring more mercury into the long arm of the tube, the pressure could be increased, forcing the air in the short arm to contract. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z Sometimes pilots or stewards tucked the tubes in their shirt pockets, to keep the cells at body temperature as if they were still in an incubator. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In Pascal’s account of why the mercury does not descend in the Torricellian tube the formal and material causes are so attenuated as to be uninteresting, and the final cause has disappeared completely. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I see doctors trying to stick a tube in my throat. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He had used half the tube on one side of the tank. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Because unless the tube is on or there's music playing, it's just me, thinking. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment I was disoriented, seized by panic; could a ghost embody itself through wavelengths, electronic dots, a picture tube? The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Then I stood up and held out the little shiny tube. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z If the tube lady wakes up, she'll be able to imagine the boy she hears behind the curtain. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z But, when you put the mouthpiece on an instrument shaped like a tube, only some of the sounds the mouthpiece makes are the right length for the tube. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z No one has so far mixed together the gases and waters of the primitive Earth and at the end of the experiment had something crawl out of the test tube. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Ernest did not object, now that the tube’s capacity to generate research funds appeared to outstrip that of the cyclotron. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The discovery thrilled physicists around the world, not least Marie Curie, to whose deathbed the Joliots brought a test tube of the first artificially produced radioelement. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Today I’d paired it with a white Spins & Needles Records T-shirt, blue striped tube socks, and my sequined Chucks. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z Somebody tried to pry the end off before discovering that the tube pulls apart. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Getting the tubing through the balloon canvas wasn't too hard. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He said that the instruments, tubing, and solutions used to wash out Garfield's wound each day were disinfected as Lister recommended. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z He would go to his assigned tunnel and do his job quickly—once you got good at using your wrenches and brushes and tubes of glue, it wasn’t hard. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But Ernest “dismissed our doubts with a wave of his hand. There were technical problems that had to be solved, he said, but the tube was certain to do the job.” Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Keep that hole wide enough for the tube. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Lawrence listened soberly, his eyes wandering over the magnets, Tesla coils, and vacuum tubes littering the lab. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Their stomachs felt like tubes of toothpaste that had been all squeezed out. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Round and round the diamond-clear counters covered with bottles, wafer-thin disks, round boxes, tubes, and phials. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Slides and blood tubes were the only glass objects allowed in a hot zone, because of the danger of glass splinters if something broke. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I cleaned out the tubing and put it all back together. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Kate very carefully untied the red ribbon and unrolled the tube. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The next time I surface, my hands are tied down to the table, the tubes back in my arm. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z Because before hummingbirds could discover his upside-down bottle, a bunch of flying ants happened by, and in no time they drove themselves like lemmings up the glass tube into Herbie’s jar-shaped slaughterhouse. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Each time the green tubes rose to the surface she felt elated and collected whole handfuls at a time to drop in twos and threes back into the water. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z She opened her purse and drew out a gold tube of lipstick and a palm-sized mirror. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A suffragist being force-fed using a nasal tube. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Mama and Baba lay within their airtight sterile chambers, buried under tubes and cables and lit only by the wall of monitors. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z And I was never going to get to ride my bike again, no matter how many new inner tubes I could afford. Lawn Boy Returns 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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