How to Use vacuum tube in a Sentence

vacuum tube

noun

• The numbers bounce around like popcorn, and then some of them get sucked into the vacuum tube.
  — Andrew Dansby, Houston Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2017
• To remove the vacuum tube, grip the large plastic lugs molded into the tube and twist it off.
  — Alex Rennie, Popular Mechanics, 29 Apr. 2022
• Like others on our list, the process only requires the vacuum tube to be placed over the port opening and turned on.
  — Lindsay Tigar, Peoplemag, 15 Aug. 2023
• Elon Musk first proposed the idea of high-speed travel through vacuum tubes in a 2013 white paper.
  — David Freeman /, NBC News, 20 May 2018
• It is designed to send a vehicle through a vacuum tube at speeds up to 600 miles per hour.
  — Harold Maass, TheWeek, 9 Nov. 2020
• After that, check the vacuum tube for debris and remove if present.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2022
• The blood passing through the tiny and large veins — wires and cables — was really a stream of data feeding the vacuum tubes.
  — K. Eddie Mehrfar, latimes.com, 23 Apr. 2018
• Fix the brush tool attachment onto your handheld vacuum tube and suck up the first layer of dust, pollen, and dirt.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 30 Nov. 2023
• The amps most coveted by guitarists do this with vacuum tubes.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 24 Mar. 2015
• The laser was soon being compared to the vacuum tube, the device that spawned the transistor and the then adolescent age of electronics.
  — Kat Eschner, Smithsonian, 7 July 2017
• Designed by Skidmore & Owens, it was shaped like a radio vacuum tube.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2023
• Then, remove the vacuum tube and hold open the impeller door to remove any leftover debris from the impeller, checking the mulching blades for damage.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2022
• Then, remove the vacuum tube and hold open the impeller door to remove any leftover debris from the impeller, checking the mulching blades for damage.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Sep. 2023
• Even more advanced is the idea of hurtling passengers through vacuum tubes where there is no air resistance.
  — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Dec. 2017
• Or how about when Hyperloop pods in vacuum tubes were going to shoot us between cities around the world at unimaginably high speeds and low cost?
  — Paris Marx, The New Republic, 14 July 2023
• Each team had to build a prototype pod that could travel down a .75-mile (1.2-kilometer) vacuum tube.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 28 Aug. 2017
• The Siphon Coffee Brewer is based on a vacuum tube style of making coffee first introduced in 1830.
  — John Wenz, Popular Mechanics, 17 Mar. 2015
• Kids play with water, vapor, vacuum tubes and other machines that dazzle the mind.
  — John Pana, cleveland.com, 3 Nov. 2017
• Clearly the transistor was better than the vacuum tube.
  — Phil Lapsley, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2018
• And that posed a fresh challenge, since the tapes were analog and could only be played on a device called a SoundScriber that used old vacuum tube technology.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 12 Nov. 2018
• Now researchers say new devices that operate a bit like vacuum tubes could slash the size and power consumption of these fridges by a factor of 10.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 12 Sep. 2023
• Computers built using vacuum tubes were not suitable for widespread use due to their size.
  — Rohini Krishnamurthy, Quartz India, 5 Jan. 2020
• At high speeds, even a small earthquake or the slightest breakage of a vacuum tube would pose a significant danger to passengers and crew.
  — Anamaria Silic, Discover Magazine, 13 Feb. 2021
• Machines that used vacuum tubes also required massive amounts of power and were prone to failure as the tubes burned out frequently.
  — Rohini Krishnamurthy, Quartz India, 5 Jan. 2020
• To start, a real-world Hyperloop system would require a large network of vacuum tubes.
  — Alice Bonasio, Ars Technica, 4 Mar. 2018
• Remember that in 1959, top-of-the-line computers—expensive, high-maintenance and run on vacuum tubes—filled a large room.
  — Frank Wilczek, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2018
• Zap’s pulses start with a puff of deuterium (an isotope of hydrogen) plasma at one end of a meter-long vacuum tube, at the center of which is an electrode.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2023
• If all goes to plan, the US could once again dominate vacuum tube manufacturing.
  — Roy Furchgott, WIRED, 28 Mar. 2023
• Over the years, memory has been made up of vacuum tubes, glass tubes filled with mercury and, most recently, semiconductors.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 21 July 2022
• That's not surprising for a vehicle designed to zoom through sealed vacuum tubes at speeds approaching 700 mph.
  — David Freeman /, NBC News, 20 May 2018

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024