What is "cylinders"

Usage examples of "cylinders".

The breather-mask, its faceplate thickly dotted with pollen now, was the barrier between him and the world, and the need to draw air through the filtered cylinders of his mask left him giddy and short of breath.

If your breathing cylinders and your filters gave out, you could stay alive breathing the air of Downbelow—but you were in deep, deep trouble.

He kept moving to push a little more out of the cylinders he was using: you could do that if you got your breathing down.

You weren't supposed to run out of both cylinders at the same time, but he realized he'd been close to it, and light-headed, as witness, he thought, the quality of his decisions of the last few minutes.

I left the saw to go after you and I was running low on the cylinders and we were taking it slow coming back so we'd save the cylinders so as not to run without a spare apiece.

He'd stuffed his pockets with cylinders until they wouldn't hold any more.

When the man chasing him got the notion he couldn't find him in the thicket and went back to report that there was a fool out running in the woods, they'd send out more people with more cylinders to look for him in a systematic way.

Stealing those cylinders and running, that wasn't going to be a minor rules infraction.

Fletcher could have walked out of the domes with no cylinders if he'd wanted to do that, as best he understood the conditions down there.

If your breathing cylinders and your filters gave out, you could stay alive breathing the air of Downbelow-but you were in deep, deep trouble.

Rain was pouring down on them and you weren't ever supposed to get the cylinders wet, even if they had a protective shell.

Now, enterprising lad, he'd stolen a bunch of cylinders, each one about eight hours of oxygen-if you didn't push it.

Hell of a thing for the kid-who right now was wandering a Downbelow woods on three days worth of cylinders, in a state of mind she could more accurately imagine than any court could.

It would only do it once, and then that suit was done and a discard, but he was going to be at the halfway point of cylinders by tomorrow and he'd have to go back or he wouldn't come back.

He should have checked out how far gone the cylinders were before it got dark.