How to Use tubular in a Sentence

tubular

adjective
  • The name comes from the five lobes at the end of each tubular flower.
    Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 24 May 2021
  • The tubular shape gave the smoky cheese and sassy onion more surface to cling to.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 12 Sep. 2019
  • At that moment the back tubular leg of my chair pushed through a knot in the floor.
    Bulletin Board, Twin Cities, 16 Apr. 2017
  • But its best feature is the tubular heater on the side that keeps your toes toasty.
    John Frank, Axios, 8 Sep. 2024
  • The clusters of small tubular blooms are sweet smelling.
    Janet Carson, Arkansas Online, 16 May 2021
  • It was made of tubular steel but changed to an all-wood frame in the 1990s, the same time the name changed from Poem to Poäng.
    Kristina McGuirk, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Cue the tubular steel and leather sofa from 1970 by Michel Boyer in the Demisch Danant space.
    Amy Verner, Vogue, 20 Oct. 2023
  • The booths are taupe and tubular, and the bar stools are black leather and industrial.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 18 Nov. 2022
  • Less than half an inch long, its tubular body has a foot at one end and a mouth at the other.
    Quanta Magazine, 18 May 2021
  • Sure, the song was a shave away from landing in the most tubular decade, but Weird Al mania was in full swing during the ’80s.
    Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 6 July 2019
  • Rigatoni’s tubular shape was ideal for cradling the glossy sauce and chunks of guanciale and sausage.
    Erica Turner, Chicago Tribune, 26 July 2023
  • Ready for day and night, for formal and casual wear, this tubular bag is sure to be a new go-to.
    Rachel Besser, Vogue, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Its design was unique, with staggered tubular gold bars and a few small gems.
    cincinnati.com, 22 Aug. 2022
  • Showy, tubular blossoms emerge in spring in the South, first white, then aging to yellow.
    Steve Bender, Southern Living, 17 May 2021
  • Get the runway look and shop all things tubular; below, with our edit of the 30 best tube tops and dresses.
    Laura Jackson, Vogue, 22 July 2022
  • The new growth is red and has red tubular flowers that hummingbirds love.
    Dennis Peck | For The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 19 May 2022
  • When the lampshade is removed, beer can be poured into a tubular opening at the top of the tower.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 7 Dec. 2022
  • Adults have white plumage, black wings, and webbed feet, along with tubular nostrils on either side of their hooked, pink bills.
    National Geographic, 15 May 2018
  • Their favorite flowers are those that have a tubular shape.
    Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 16 Feb. 2023
  • The kitchen, which overlooks a stone courtyard, evokes the Bauhaus with a Marcel Breuer table and chairs of tubular steel on a black-and-white tiled floor.
    Sarah Medford, WSJ, 4 Feb. 2020
  • The first coaster to feature a tubular steel track, the historic ride ushered in a new era of thrill machines.
    Arthur Levine, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2020
  • The saw comes with a tubular rolling stand for easy portability.
    Barbara Bellesi Zito, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Even a new tubular wheel-to-wheel side-step design is claimed to enhance airflow.
    Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 19 Jan. 2018
  • Then Styles injects a subtle key change and breaks out tubular bells – and for a fleeting moment, all is right in the world.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA TODAY, 16 May 2022
  • With its lightweight sheet-aluminum body on a tubular steel frame, our car tipped the scales at only 1406 pounds.
    Don Schroeder, Car and Driver, 28 June 2020
  • The real risk-takers make a beeline for the corkscrewing tubular Black Slides.
    Blaine and Birch Bay, The Seattle Times, 3 Aug. 2017
  • The streamer now resembled a wing, hemmed at the top with tubular buoys and weighted at the bottom with chains and one of the boat anchors.
    Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 17 June 2024
  • The appendage was a proboscis, a type of mouth-like, tubular sucking nose found in insects — and belonged to a new species of bee.
    Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 27 Mar. 2024
  • For tubular or shaped pastas, look to creamy or hearty sauces studded with bits of meat or vegetable.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Dec. 2020
  • Throwback to those tubular 90s color block designs with Patagonia’s Pack In Hoody.
    Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 18 Sep. 2024

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