Example sentences for: funnel

How can you use “funnel” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As Jodie T. Allen in Slate in 1997, a primary function of any disaster is to funnel pork to important states.

  • The water-filled bucket has now rested, silent and waiting, until the cannonball strikes the paddle wheel, whereupon the wheel spins, the red rope winds up, pulling the water-filled bucket up the well, up against the axle, which tilts the bucket over  you will have to imagine this part  and pours the water into a long funnel that slopes down from the wellhead toward my bean field.

  • Huguenot merchant Peter Faneuil (pronounced fannel, fan’l or funnel), gave it to the city in 1742.

  • The president's gun buy-back plan does not include a proposal to eliminate the middleman and funnel the $15 million directly to Smith & Wesson.

  • Carey was barred, say the papers, because he misused his power by tolerating and engaging in various laundering schemes to funnel money from his union's general fund to his own election effort.


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