Constituting a tube; having hollow tubes (as for the passage of fluids)
1 I was in a brick, tubelike structure with a sloping floor.
2 Then, with a tubelike lower lip, they suck up the sap.
3 A narrow, tubelike space, with a flight of metal stairs rising in a spiral.
4 Charles put down his screwdriver and lifted the tubelike monoscope by its leather harness.
5 The tubelike tunnel acoustics brought them distant groans.
6 The April breeze, fluttering carelessly through the tubelike street, caught her large hat and tipped it awry.
7 One of the fields contained tubelike objects, others oval-shaped white dots neatly lined up next to one another.
8 And once the strangers settled into their positions, they held up the tubelike things and aimed them directly at the people below.
9 The wooden floor of the room had expanded to a spread of cellular surface, ridged with broken, tubelike tunnels; pits and jagged cave-mouths.
10 There were the twisted bodies of moles, stoats, weasels, toads, and a couple of long, blackened, tubelike things that might have been adders.
11 There were two hundred green plastic soldiers, some with rifles, some with machine guns, a dozen welded to tubelike gadgets she said were mortars.
12 I descended the stairs, and found myself in a sort of cellar with two tubelike arrangements, down one of which a young man was shooting.
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