• The ‘Big Holes’ left on the South African diamond pipes are hundreds of metres deep, and their floors continue to subside as the rock is dug away from below.
• In order to mine the deep pipes in which diamonds were found, capital, technology, and control of water were all-important.

• Pipe and lamination defects are a by-product of ingot steel production.
• The pipe in the cast metal may be filled up with sand.

• Normally, food moves down a pipe (called the esophagus) between your mouth and your stomach.
• The acid damages cells lining the oesophagus, also known as the food pipe or gullet, which can later become cancerous.

• Their large internet pipes are a valuable perk they can share with their employees.
• Home- and office-based video streaming is coming, and that data needs a fat pipe in both directions.

• They were small but doughty warriors and not averse to a pipe of baccy after the battle.
• When he is not in front of the computer, he can be found enjoying a pipe of tobacco.
• He made himself comfortable in his recording studio with a pipe of tobacco and the bootleg CD.

• I forced myself onto my balcony, and very methodically packed another pipe full of cannabis, sat down in a chair, and turned some music on.
• I hate to say it but, yeah, I'm pretty sure if all I had to do was smoke crack once, I'd hit that pipe and take the money.

• As they entered the ring before the fight a small contingent of pipes and drums tried to play Flower of Scotland but were drowned out by a crowd who were desperate for the action to begin.
• My father played the fiddle and the pipes; my mother played melodeon and five-string banjo.

Synonyms

• His father played the pipes, tin whistle and fiddle and was a notable musician in his day.
• He is also extremely accomplished on whistles, pipes and flutes.

• The enormous burnished pipes of the organ, lit from below, rose like architecture behind the musicians.
• It was resounding like an organ pipe, strongly enough to rattle windows.

• The boatswain's pipe is the 'modern day' descendant of the flutes used by the Ancient Greeks and Romans to convey orders to the oarsmen and galley slaves.
• The shrill of the pipe draws the attention.

• The silence was broken only by the splash of an alligator leaping on some prey far below, and the mournful pipe of some jungle bird across the rivers.
• We heard the raucous squabbling of gulls and the haunting pipe of the curlew.
• The bright blue sky and the merry pipe of birds call him out to active exercise and unaccustomed sport.

• Unbeknownst to most of the country, a company in London has been using broadband connections via traditional phone lines to pipe television into homes.
• Jazzy piano and blues music is piped into every room.
• Before the service began, Caribbean-style music was piped from loudspeakers erected outside the church which could be heard several streets away.

Synonyms

• Tourists are piped on to the train by a young kilted boy on the platform as steam gathers into clouds which float gently overhead.
• He was piped in like the chieftains of old by Sligo piper Eugene Conlon.
• Guests were piped into Ashford Castle by Mattie Dowd of Balla Pipe band.

• Leave hasn't been piped yet but the excitement of what lies ahead for our visit is growing throughout the ship.
• The vessel was still almost a mile and a half inside Australian waters and then Hands to Boarding Stations was piped.
• The sailors were piped to quarters.

• ‘All aboard, ladies and gentlemen,’ he piped cheerfully.
• ‘Mr Reid,’ she piped in a voice that was a caricature of affability.
• ‘Ben Germane's office,’ the whiny voice piped from the other end of the receiver.