1.   It recently scored a major hit with Go-Gurt, a yogurt aimed at children that is packaged in a slender portable tube requiring no spoon.

2.   Its Extreme Lip Colour is a slender tube of intense red in a similar price range.

3.   The apparatus is used to position a slender tube that will be inserted in the brain.

4.   The chemical is inserted directly into the uterus at the tip of a long slender tube.

5.   Using laparoscopes, physicians can insert a slender tube into the body through a keyhole incision and direct it to the site of a tumor.

6.   Skinny instruments and a slender viewing tube called a laparoscope are inserted through tiny incisions.

7.   It was easy to use and very popular at the end of last century, but proved impossible to clean because it had such very slender tubes.