What is "tubelike"

Usage examples of "tubelike".

The escape compartment was a tubelike chamber built right into the hull of the submarine.

And then the man had taken up a position behind him and was jabbing another of the tubelike weapons into him.

From a bag on his shoulder, Regimol took out a tubelike instrument and handed it to his comrade.

Patches here and there on the tubelike body and broad swept-back wings show where repairs have been made over the years.

He took it anyway, running blindly down the tubelike ramp which led back into the copter.

But the slimy jumble of tubelike intestines and other organs slipped through his fingers.

There were many tubelike projections growing on it, protruding from various places and bending in various angles.

The foot that had made the imprint had been encased in a tubelike boot with a ridged underside.

The forward pair of legs did double duty as arms, and when the creatures carried thingstottering in the low gravity and intermittently dropping a front limb for temporary balanceBram was amazed to see the tubelike abdomen curve flexibly around to assist with the grip.

She wore a black wig cut to bare the tips of her shoulders, a tubelike under-dress of opaque white linen and a flare-sleeved, open over-dress of that fabulous linen only Egypt could makea transparent, finely pleated.

The only thing I want from the bag is a black tubelike device about so long.

The long, tubelike chamber spanned forty meters, lined all the way with adamant red-metal and triple-braced buttresses.

Examination of the corpses revealed a hairy, tubelike animal with fully a hundred spindly legs and a set of jaws at one end which justified the caution of their approach.

Kneeling, he picked up a tubelike section, fingering its dust as it spilled through his fingers.

Each section was composed of eleven tubelike habitat pods-a center tube surrounded by ten others.