How to use funnel in a sentence

Examples of funnel by meaning

More sentences with funnel

• Thick smoke belched through the funnels of the steamship.From the entry belch
• I watched a tinsmith hammer out a funnel.From the entry hammer out
• Tomas Montoya has sold festival foods—funnel cakes, burgers, hot dogs—across the American Southwest for years.2026 April 16, Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, Elaine Godfrey, “Trump Voters Are Over It”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington…. From the entry funnel cake
• The vessel for this alcohol enema can be a funnel or soaked tampon.2021 September 27, Jessica Testa, “Everything You Need To Know About Butt-Chugging”, in BuzzFeed. From the entry butt chugger
• To ascertain potential meta-bias, a funnel plot was qualitatively assessed for asymmetry.2020 March 19, Derek S. Chew, Eric Black-Maier, Zak Loring, Peter A. Noseworthy, Douglas L. Packer, Derek V. Exner, Daniel B. Mark…. From the entry metabias
• Walking into the pitcher on downward pointing hairs, victims slip and drown in the funnel.1989 May, Uwe George, “Venezuela's Islands in Time”, in National Geographic, volume 175, number 5, page 551. From the entry pitcher
• Above his head the funnel farted black soot into the sky.1988, Peter Carey, chapter 95, in Oscar and Lucinda, London: Faber and Faber, published 1989, page 457. From the entry fart
• Trade with Manchuria and China is funneled through the city to Korea.1968, “SINŬIJU”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 20, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 569. From the entry Manchuria
• Their government says Moscow is funneling undocumented migrants to the border between the two countries to orchestrate an influx of immigration.2024 July 12, “Finland approves controversial law to turn away migrants at Russian border”, in Euronews. From the entry Moscow
• The Infowars fabulist has been funneling millions out of his empire while claiming bankruptcy, the Sandy Hook families suing him say.2022 August 25, Elizabeth Williamson, “Alex Jones Accused of Hiding Assets From Sandy Hook Families”, in The New York Times, →ISSN…. From the entry fabulist
• Funneling my money to a Flemish woolers' uprising!2020, Vesper Stamper, A Cloud of Outrageous Blue, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, page 49. From the entry wooler
• It uses the sales funnel as the product.2015, Dan S. Kennedy, Kim Walsh-Phillips, No B.S. Guide to Direct Response Social Media Marketing, →ISBN, page 244. From the entry livecast
• The slope of the terrain, shaped like a funnel, squeezed the growing swell of churning snow into a steep, twisting gorge.2012, John Branch, “Snow Fall: The Avalanche at Tunnel Creek”, in New York Times. From the entry churn
• The heartpiece of the plant consists of several horizontal hot gas funnels and corresponding vertical material funnels (Fig. 1).2009 September 28, John B. Wachtman, 51st Conference on Glass Problems, Volume 12, Issue 3/4 (Ceramic Engineering and Science…. From the entry heartpiece
• As you approach the door outside the funnel, you get nuts-to-butts and keep the muzzles of your weapons pointed up.2007, Luis Giampietri, Bill Salisbury, Lorena Ausejo, 41 Seconds to Freedom: An Insider's Account of the Lima Hostage Crisis, 1996-97…. From the entry nuts to butts
• Philly cheesesteak sandwiches and funnel cakes, caramel corn and special-recipe baked beans, fresh-picked supersweet corn and homemade boysenberry-apple pies.2004, Robert Elmer, chapter 4, in The Duet: A Novel, Colorado Springs, Colo.: WaterBrook Press, →ISBN, page 28. From the entry supersweet
• The radicals said it was more important to wreck the Amerikan military machine rather than funneling gays into GI rags.1978 December 9, Mitzel, “Post-Briggs Blues”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 4. From the entry ameliorationist
• Meanwhile, nearly fifty million dollars were also funnelled through mirror trades to the Khanani network, whose clients include associates of Hezbollah and the Taliban.2020 September 23, Ed Caesar, “The FinCEN Files Shed New Light on a Scandalous Episode at Deutsche Bank”, in The New Yorker, New York…. From the entry abject
• It was all done through Gosports, which was a rubber tube and a funnel thing that looked like you measure stuff with.2015, Dewey Cassell, The Incredible Herb Trimpe, page 31. From the entry gosport
• The outdraft is like a funnel, pulling the boat and tow out into the river, away from the lock and toward the dam.2004, Virginia Thorndike, On Tugboats, page 290. From the entry outdraft
• Had an ambulance sitting next to me until the police funneled us down a lane and a half wide goat path to clear the highway.2003 August 17, JimF-xWSMbari, “The show review that wasn't”, in rec.arts.marching.drumcorps (Usenet), archived from the original on 30…. From the entry ambie
• There are many drug lords, each with his own corridor (think of it as a franchise of sorts) funneling narcotics into Texas.2000, Arturo Longoria, Keepers of the Wilderness. From the entry mule
• Wherever we look up, there suspended against an areola of humming fluorescent white, is a shadowy funnel of tiny flies, bobbing in the air.1995, Beloit Fiction Journal, volume 11, page 37. From the entry no-see-um
• Only a normal vision could read the signs and sense the funnel- ness of the scene— its infundibuliformity, as John knew to call it.1984, Department of English, Ascent - Volume 10 - Issue 1, The Illinois University Press • The California University Press, page 59. From the entry infundibuliformity
• If performance varies per geographic location, or you have separate budgets for different geos, demographics, or steps in the funnel, you will need to create separate campaigns.2019 February 18, Laura Maya, YouTube My Business, Estalontech, →ISBN. From the entry geo
• The lady confided to the nurse helping her up off the examination couch, and told her “He put his hand up me funnel and made me tuppence bleed!”2012, Richard Johns, Diagnosis of the Soul: The Long Road to the Beginning. From the entry tuppence
• In these funnels the cold cullet flows from the top to the bottom by means of the force of gravity and is heated up by the hot waste gas.2009 September 28, John B. Wachtman, 51st Conference on Glass Problems, Volume 12, Issue 3/4 (Ceramic Engineering and Science…. From the entry heartpiece
• Today's lawyers run the risk of feeding the "greedy, arrogant law firm" persona already well-established in the minds of most people when they mishire, mismanage, and improperly funnel resources.2005, Business Law Today - Volume 15, page 14. From the entry mishire
• Williams's steamboat crossed paths with a boat that was at the start of its voyage upstream, a long, boxy sternwheeler with a funnel and pilothouse on its top deck.1998, Adam Hochschild, King Leopold's Ghost, Pan, published 2012, page 140. From the entry sternwheeler
• The provision would funnel an additional $91 billion over 10 years to the heirs of megafortunes, money that would otherwise have been paid in federal taxes or donated to charity.2009 April 8, “Guarding the Family Fortune”, in New York Times. From the entry megafortune
• Old Tiflis, dustcolored with an occasional patch of blue or white on a house, is loosely sprinkled in the funnel out of which the copper-wire river pours into the plain.2003, John Dos Passos, Travel books and other writings, 1916-1941, page 162. From the entry dustcolored

Meaning of funnel

1. noun A utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening.
2. noun A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the chimney of a steamship or the like.
3. verb To use a funnel.

Full definition of funnel

More about funnel

• Meaning of funnel
• Past tense of funnel
• Plural of funnel
• Funnel in Hindi
• Funnel in Marathi
• Funnel in Bengali
• Funnel in Telugu

Questions about funnel in a sentence

How do you use funnel in a sentence?

Funnel is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Expect delays where the traffic funnels down to one lane.”

What is a short sentence with funnel?

“Funneling my money to a Flemish woolers' uprising!”

What does funnel mean?

Funnel means a utensil in the shape of an inverted hollow cone terminating in a narrow pipe, for channeling liquids or granular material; typically used when transferring said substances from any container into ones with a significantly smaller opening.