How to Use siphon in a Sentence

siphon

1 of 2 noun
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  • In a world thirsty for water, lawns are a sneaky siphon.
    — Dan Zak, Washington Post, 24 Aug. 2022
  • Painted on the walls are lessons on the evolution of Chemex brewing and the siphon pot.
    — Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 4 June 2018
  • The Picteau team uses a soda siphon to make this drink.
    — Catherine Sabino, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Over the past 1,500 years the Dar-al-Islam, served as a great siphon for slaves from the north, south, and east, Slavs, blacks, and Turks.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 19 Mar. 2012
  • Erika’s husband, Luis, sucks on a plastic hose to start a siphon.
    — Brian J. Cantwell, The Seattle Times, 31 May 2017
  • Could Mo Alie-Cox return from a knee injury and siphon targets from both of them?
    — Phil Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 28 Oct. 2020
  • Similar to the siphon, a heat source causes the water in the bottom chamber to form steam.
    — Catherine Hu, Discover Magazine, 17 Feb. 2015
  • To make the drink without a siphon, mix the ingredients and add sparkling water.
    — Catherine Sabino, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • The squid can also use the siphon to propel its way through water backward.
    — Julia Alexander, The Verge, 5 Dec. 2018
  • To their surprise, the new snails kept their siphons wrapped up much longer after a shock, almost as if they’d been trained.
    — Veronique Greenwood, New York Times, 15 May 2018
  • Choose from pour over, Chemex, Clever, siphon,drip, woodneck, French press, or espresso.
    — Catherine Strawn, Country Living, 1 Oct. 2014
  • Rock-boring clams poked their siphons from the sand or the gray patches of Swiss-cheese-like colonies to send small jets of water airborne.
    — Clark Fair, Alaska Dispatch News, 8 July 2017
  • His fire siphon would squirt flames from one wooden boat to another.
    — Peter Holley, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2018
  • Snails that had been shocked before retreated their siphons for longer than new snails.
    — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 19 May 2018
  • A burrowed adult geoduck’s siphon can stretch about 39 inches into the sea bed.
    — Mark Yuasa, The Seattle Times, 25 May 2017
  • Just three months ago, 60 millions received a report from a woman who was also struck in the heart due to a faulty siphon.
    — Amanda Randone, Teen Vogue, 22 June 2017
  • The clam's digging foot extends from the bottom, and its siphon — or neck, as it's commonly called — extends from the top.
    — Alaska Dispatch News, 17 Sep. 2017
  • The clam’s digging foot extends from the bottom, and its siphon — or neck, as it’s commonly called — extends from the top.
    — David Berger, The Seattle Times, 25 Aug. 2017
  • The assassin bug's deadly proboscis is both sword and siphon.
    — smithsonianmag.com, 2 May 2017
  • So the good news is that washing your face with seltzer doesn't call for spraying yourself in the face with one of those high-powered soda siphons.
    — Marci Robin, Allure, 29 Sep. 2018
  • Its tubular siphon, which can grow to be 3 feet long, is an easy target for anatomical jokes.
    — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, 27 Aug. 2019
  • There was a product recall for siphons in 2013 made by the brand Ard’Time, which is what Rebecca was using the other night.
    — Amanda Randone, Teen Vogue, 22 June 2017
  • The Kyoto-style iced coffee is potent, and the siphon-filter drip bar makes for an impressive show.
    — Los Angeles Magazine, 20 June 2017
  • The siphons lowered the height of the lake by nearly 20 feet, but they were damaged in recent icefall, and only two are now working.
    — Nick Miroff, chicagotribune.com, 7 Aug. 2017
  • The site is adjacent to a shaft containing multiple pipes used to lift sewage up to the plant from harbor siphons.
    — Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2018
  • This comes weeks after the shelter also found that someone had disconnected the hose to the gas tank in the van in order to siphon gasoline, Allen said.
    — Adam Terro, The Arizona Republic, 1 Apr. 2022
  • For any basic cocktail being made in a soda siphon, the ratio of water to alcohol should be four to one.
    — Lauren Le Vine, Redbook, 28 June 2013
  • The researchers crafted their own whipping siphon and pressurized it up to 200 psi, almost seven times the pressure of a car tire.
    — Akila Muthukumar, STAT, 3 July 2022
  • The $138 million siphon project was designed to reduce sewer overflows to local rivers and Lake Michigan.
    — Don Behm, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12 Feb. 2018
  • Octopuses typically use the siphon — a funnel that can eject water — to swim and steer.
    — Erin Berge, Discover Magazine, 9 Nov. 2022
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siphon

2 of 2 verb
  • The water needs to be siphoned from the pool.
  • Funds were siphoned from the schools to build a new stadium.
  • The large chain stores are siphoning profits from the small local stores.
  • She illegally siphoned money out of other people's bank accounts.
  • And the bulk of those were siphoned directly off of Likud.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 7 Mar. 2023
  • And so the government could siphon aid sent to Syria, Basha said.
    — Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press, 11 Feb. 2023
  • The purpose, the DRI claimed, was to siphon funds out of the country, to an account in Mauritius.
    — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 27 Feb. 2023
  • That leaves Democrats to decide whether to siphon off Raskin’s nomination and move forward with the rest of the slate.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Still, Bravo’s six challengers hoped to siphon off enough votes to pull him into a runoff.
    — Megan Rodriguez, San Antonio Express-News, 15 May 2023
  • Nonetheless, the amount of money flowing through the ecosystem has begun to siphon off.
    — Solo Ceesay, Rolling Stone, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Those in favor of the rule say short-term rentals siphon away housing that could go to full-time residents and lead to rising rent costs.
    — Amanda Hoover, WIRED, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The insinuation: This is how San Diego will buy and siphon off your water.
    — Mark Olalde, ProPublica, 20 Nov. 2023
  • The 25-year-old Democrat worried that Cox’s school choice plan would siphon money from public schools at a time of staffing shortages.
    — Lillian Reed, Baltimore Sun, 16 Sep. 2022
  • But the neighborhood suffered as car culture and the growth of the suburbs siphoned business away over the course of the midcentury.
    — Dallasnews.com Staff, Dallas News, 15 June 2023
  • No donor will invest in Gaza if Hamas is in control or siphoning away supplies.
    — Dennis Ross, Foreign Affairs, 13 Mar. 2024
  • Kamon also allegedly worked with the law firm’s onetime handyman to siphon more than $5.6 million from the law firm.
    — Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Many of these candidates take their cues from Trump in an obvious attempt to siphon off voters from his base.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 15 Apr. 2022
  • The suit alleges that Favre was one of a number of private individuals who sought to siphon off some of the welfare money.
    — Khristopher J. Brooks, CBS News, 12 Oct. 2022
  • With the threat of third parties potentially siphoning votes, there's a need for the Biden campaign to spend big to try to bring all of his 2020 voters back into the fold.
    — Domenico Montanaro, NPR, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Some is being siphoned off to irrigate farms and orchards.
    — Shawn Hubler Mark Abramson, New York Times, 25 June 2023
  • The success can only go so far while dams and canals continue to siphon off the river’s formerly cyclical high flows.
    — Brandon Loomis, The Arizona Republic, 30 June 2023
  • But as Gluyas mentions, microbes often gobble up hydrogen formed in the ground before anyone has had the chance to siphon it off.
    — WIRED, 24 Nov. 2022
  • The city will siphon lake water from the city of Milwaukee, which is currently using Lake Michigan water.
    — Todd Richmond, Chicago Tribune, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Huge sums that could be spent on care are instead being siphoned off to insurers and middlemen.
    — Cezary Podkul, ProPublica, 14 Aug. 2023
  • That all changed two years ago, when water managers opted to siphon water away from Flaming Gorge to save Lake Powell, dropping it about 20 feet.
    — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 22 July 2023
  • The pinnacle bottle is a 42-year-old single malt inspired by a tool workers once used to use to siphon off a furtive dram from barrels in those warehouses.
    — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 3 Nov. 2022
  • The number of candidates in O’Farrell’s race increases the likelihood that the group will siphon away votes to force the councilman into a November runoff.
    — Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2022
  • The stars draw closer together with each passing year as the larger one, 35 times the mass of our sun, siphons energy from its smaller companion.
    — Allison Gasparini, Scientific American, 17 Oct. 2023
  • Some streaming services are moving to build their own filming campuses, which could siphon business from the New York studios.
    — Kate King, WSJ, 10 May 2022
  • Israel has expressed concerns that Hamas members could siphon aid away from civilians, directing it to militants.
    — Bryan Pietsch, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024

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