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    Use "siphon" in a sentence

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    1. Anyway, where's the toilet? I have to go siphon the


    2. I was able to siphon out the


    3. two meters of garden hose and push it to the bottom of your car’s tank and then siphon


    4. her to siphon the petrol from her car


    5. clumsy, but he can siphon the poison out of your bloodstream


    6. Instead of working for the success of their ventures, the promoters siphon off funds to fail their firms


    7. I approached him and told him about my promise to my children, and that I would pay him $200 if I could siphon some gas from his car


    8. The port was only able to be fitted with a siphon that pumped the fuel in


    9. Normally fool proof and impenetrable procedures would have to be thwarted if he was ever going to be able to siphon off the vast reserves of cash built up by all the terrorist organisations operating in Northern Ireland


    10. She would drag a siphon

    11. poverty stricken peasants trying to siphon off the oil flow were the problem


    12. the live rock in the middle of the tank will allow you to siphon up the debris that the


    13. Now it's time to use the turkey baster to siphon out the


    14. You siphon off my power


    15. This was further refined by civilization into a legal system of robbery that managed to siphon off most of the wealth from the masses and concentrate it at the top of a ruling class or elite


    16. These types of aberrant human-to-human behaviours can include despicable activities where corrupt members of Governments can and do, in some countries, siphon off public wealth and aid into personal and private bank accounts


    17. present life's circumstances? But by what mechanism could „I' siphon those events into my


    18. Wallace had received 10 million votes in 1968 and in a close race in 1972 he could siphon off enough Nixon votes to give the presidency to a Democrat


    19. Once I would have thought what was taking place in Ryodan’s office was no more than what it appeared to be: an Unseelie of the royal caste subjugating a human, getting drunk on the pleasure they siphon from our souls


    20. The few people we encountered in the streets when we stopped to siphon gas, or in the stores we paused to loot, were heavily armed and kept a wary distance

    21. Certain possible inventions of which he had cogitated when reclining in a state of supine repletion to aid digestion, stimulated by his appreciation of the importance of inventions now common but once revolutionary, for example, the aeronautic parachute, the reflecting telescope, the spiral corkscrew, the safety pin, the mineral water siphon, the canal lock with winch and sluice, the suction pump


    22. On it stood a silver tray of smokables and a burnished spirit-stand, from which and an adjacent siphon my silent host proceeded to charge two high glasses


    23. But analysis would show that the participation of the public in any future increase in earnings was seriously diluted in three different ways: by the cash selling expense subtracted from the price to be paid for the new stock, by the small tangible assets contributed by the original owners for their stock interest and by the warrants which would siphon off part of any increased value


    24. They do not take shareholder interests into consideration and will often siphon off profits to themselves through egregiously large compensation packages


    25. They can go anywhere they want, all over the earth, on a deep siphon, and come back later, to the cistern inlet and swim back up under the town, under a dozen tobacco shops and four dozen liquor stores, and six dozen groceries and ten theatres, a rail junction, Highway 101, under the walking feet of thirty thousand people who don't even know or think of the cistern


    26. Douglas felt his breath siphon


    27. Before allowing the CIA to implode under the weight of its sins, he would siphon off its power


    28. Then siphon it into a filter made up of a nylon stocking (or other porous material) stuffed with layers of sand (bottom), charcoal and moss (top)


    1. She closed her eyes, and in spite of the situation, his fingers slowly siphoned the tenseness from her back


    2. It was a white elephant after the comrades siphoned off cash at every level of the building process


    3. What better example do we have than the vast expansion of the federal government in the 1930s with the creation of the vast network of public works and welfare programs supported by taxes siphoned out of the economy?


    4. She is prosecuted and demands are issued for an arbitrary and fictitious sum totalling twenty times the amount she siphoned off


    5. Unfortunately leaders who took power from the British, blindly followed the British model of governance, did not change any of the British laws, siphoned off trillions of dollars to foreign banks, practiced divide and rule policy and have ruined the country (2014)


    6. Trillions of dollars worth of money is siphoned off to foreign banks and total number of people starving in India is increasing


    7. In those early days, good students were not siphoned off to magnet or charter schools, and there were always some kids who were both achievers and role models for the others, which made all the bad stuff worth it


    8. Remember a certain country that fought off European colonial domination to the cry of ‘no taxes without representation’? Up to now, the French have simply siphoned off the riches available in Indochina while providing very little in return to the local people


    9. But, what might happen if the government were the sole legal lender, and all lending activity was transacted through public banks, instead of private banks? Unearned wealth currently being siphoned by investors in the form of interest payments could be financing public programs, and combatting the ballooning national debt


    10. “But most of it was siphoned off from official funds and international aid in the first place, wasn’t it?” asked Bridges

    11. you've just siphoned out while doing a water change


    12. Once you've siphoned out most of the water from the bottle into your coffee filter, you should


    13. That spark of humanity siphoned off my anger against him, but I detested him for it


    14. was siphoned off from the public listed company (inspite of the so called indepen-


    15. Then, after they siphoned off my money, my “feminist” parents let Nick bundle me off to Missouri like I was some piece of chattel, some mail-order bride, some property exchange


    16. We have guarded not only Troy and its ruins and sifted the Egyptian sands for wise stones to put beneath our tongues to clear our speech, but we have, like cats, inhaled the breaths of mortals, siphoned and published their whispers


    17. And here she came on the worn stone floors, her moth-fingers tapping, scanning braille book titles, as her nostrils siphoned the shadows


    1. The FBI had been watching this bank for quite some time, because they felt that there was collusion going one between directors and major shareholders in the siphoning off money through loans


    2. It is my contention that this money siphoning business has been taking place ever since and grown to include borrowing money against the US to steal for private use by the crooks who run the country


    3. rates should be fixed at a reasonable rate to encourage stability, and discourage waste, wealth siphoning, and roller coaster style swings in borrowing and development, with associated


    4. That is stopping Satan from siphoning the good


    5. Lastly they set up massive siphoning pipelines to drain the oily oceans and fill up the pits


    6. ii) Bid siphoning is a practice that can truly bring a quick end to your auction career


    7. in siphoning of the wealth from the common


    8. siphoning action of a power filter that hangs on the back of an aquarium does a decent job of


    9. The last thing I needed was Elly siphoning off funds to pay for gifts for her Mum


    10. siphoning of funds and mishandling of financial facilities should the

    11. evaporation and depletion of our water, but it was also being siphoning off in an advanced


    12. When the walls between Man and Fae began to weaken long ago, the Seelie Queen tapped into the prison walls, siphoning some of their power, which she used to reinforce the boundaries between worlds … thus dangerously weakening the prison walls


    13. He’d mixed up eggnog by siphoning off half of the store-bought carton and replacing it with some rum of uncertain vintage


    14. Pivots are set up to naturally take advantage of their mistakes, essentially siphoning money from these trading accounts into your own


    15. Wide Ida was siphoning Pine Canyon whisky into Old Crow bottles when she heard it


    16. A catheter would do it, but who has one in the mountains in the middle of the night? I had a plastic tube for siphoning gasoline, but the diameter was too great


    1. The Instructor looked long and hard at the cadet suspecting a silly joke, but patiently explained again that the gas siphons off from the explosion from the fired ammunition and it never has to be refilled


    2. When the body gets too little water, it siphons what it needs from internal sources


    3. The chamber siphons a drop of depleted


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    Synonyms for "siphon"

    siphon syphon siphon off

    "siphon" definitions

    a tube running from the liquid in a vessel to a lower level outside the vessel so that gravity forces the liquid through the tube


    a tubular organ in an aquatic animal (especially in mollusks) through which water can be taken in or expelled


    convey, draw off, or empty by or as if by a siphon


    move a liquid from one container into another by means of a siphon or a siphoning action