Example sentences for: funneled

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

  • Notice how the sloping roof funneled rainwater into the castle’s cisterns.

  • T>he Dream Life of Balso Snell seems to have taught him the rudiments of literary form, and in his next two novels, Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) and A Cool Million (1934), he funneled this half-hysterical personality of his into some reasonably disciplined yet fully grotesque story lines--in the case of Miss Lonelyhearts , the noir daily life of a cynical Christian advice columnist, and in the case of A Cool Million , the adventures of a Horatio Alger-type character.

  • The soft money is no longer principally funneled through national political parties; many candidates today have established political action committees which are thinly veiled conduits for their own interests.

  • Best leaks over the weekend: 1) Documents indicate that John Huang's real-estate holding company funneled Indonesian money into U.S. campaigns ( Washington Post ); 2) Clinton personally lobbied the Democratic National Committee's finance chairman to hire Huang in 1995 ( New York Times ). Pundits wistfully alluded to the 25 th anniversary of Watergate and regretted that the current scandal doesn't measure up.

  • As the two men also explained in a Nightline forum taped before their "handshake," they both support an outright ban on soft money--the huge, unregulated contributions funneled into the general election by way of the political parties.


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