Sentence examples for like tubes from inspiring English sources

Some pieces were curved, like tubes that might suck you up into an alien spacecraft.

These are two balloon-like tubes meant to be slapped together to create a thunderous noise.

Typically physicians put multiple catheters inside the heart, each with four to 10 electrodes attached to the spaghetti-like tubes.

Officials said the mailbox-like tubes, standing between sidewalks and curbs, were unsightly and used public property.

The first strategy was based on the ability of vascular endothelial cells to form capillary-like tubes.

Long, rope-like tubes that trail off horizontally are common in the waning phase of many tornadoes.

Four culvert-like tubes were placed in proximity to each other, large enough to crawl inside, but seemingly minuscule in the Utah desert expanse.

The smokestack-like tubes are stilts that lift the ship out of the sea to steady it and allow the turbine to be installed.

A typical upweller is like a floating raft, 8 by 20 feet, with silo-like tubes inside of which young shellfish grow.

Syringe-like tubes of glitter makeup sit twenty paces from a "zen" section of green-tea body scrubs and crystal-infused candles.

In 2004 Mr. Villareal made a prequel of sorts to "Field" that used rows of Flavin-like tubes in lieu of a sheet of acrylic.