The word 'tubes' is correct and can be used in written English.
It is a plural noun used to refer to cylindrical shaped objects that are hollow and open at both ends. Example: Please bring me three tubes of toothpaste from the store.
Yet, to take just one example, the misplacement of nasogastric tubes continues.
"The day that we ran out of water I turned on my faucet and nothing was there and at that moment I knew the whole of Barnhart was down the tubes," she said, blinking back tears.
More intriguing is the Mag Surf, developed by people in white coats with pockets ostentatiously festooned with pens, which is based on excitingly Back to the Future-type things such as superconductors, and flux tubes.
– tubes carrying blood around my body and stuff.
Each filter is made up of tiny micro tubes with pores hundreds of times smaller than the diameter of a human hair.
Backed by the government-funded Quilliam Foundation and their media cheerleaders, the neocons have pressed tirelessly to end residual official engagement with mainstream nonviolent Islamist groups, hitherto aimed at isolating the genuinely extreme groups actually in the business of blowing up buses and tubes.
"The voters are looking for someone who is going to provide a solution to London's problems - buses, trains, tubes," she told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
Which appears to be taking a short break from convincing us the UK has gone totally down the tubes to press home a slightly perplexing message of: hey, please don't break up this wonderful hideous slutty drunken immoral country where women, gays and foreigners don't know their place!
"I think there should be a law that says after two children, we'll tie the tubes.
In this case the man's family found a pile of post three-feet high that included scam letters from Belgium, France, Ireland and Switzerland, along with stacks of items including 100 bars of soap, 153 tubes of shower gel and more than 50 false teeth holders and toothbrushes.
They feared it would clog the finely engineered tubes.
