How to Use siphon in a Sentence

siphon

1 of 2 noun

• 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.
  — David Berger, The Seattle Times, 25 Aug. 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 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
• The researchers next plan to crank up the whipping siphon pressure to trap and release more carbon monoxide with more smaller bubbles inside the foam.
  — Akila Muthukumar, STAT, 3 July 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
• Yet that hasn’t stopped opponents from attempting to siphon away the President’s union support should the deal fail to deliver on worker’s hopes.
  — Time, 14 Sep. 2023

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