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How to use the word funnel in a Sentence?

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We see one of the fraternity members putting a tube in Danny's mouth with a funnel at the other end and pouring beer down his throat while Danny is in the middle of consuming an entire bottle of vodka. That's on the video.

Nick Santulli

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

When you think about it, making entry -- announced or unannounced -- is very high risk, you're going through a' fatal funnel,' where the bad guy could fire rounds blindly at a doorway and have a chance of hitting us. If we don't have to go through, we don't want to. Who benefits from making an entry ? The answer is the bad guy. So we'd say, that's a tactically unsound decision.

Thor Eells

Found on CNN
2 years ago

They like to funnel pucks from all angles, they get good traffic in front. You've got to do whatever you can to prevent those rebounds.

Jeremy Swayman

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Unless, of course, we want to keep seeing billions of dollars going into a funnel and get wasted.

Kevin Paffrath

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Netflix has become very aware of where we as a company need to be better and have committed actual dollars to helping funnel that.

Carolina Garcia

Found on CNN
2 years ago

You can't save those extra doses until tomorrow, you've got to try and get them into people, and they're trying to use that as the funnel for getting the volunteers caught up, the people that have the qualifications to help have been willing to do so.

Robert Riley

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Lake Detroit's the same topography : three canyons coming down like a funnel into the city of Paradise at the bottom of the funnel, when I heard that two years ago I said, that's Lake Detroit.

Detroit Mayor Jim Trett

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Jio is a company that's very focused on the rural side, because that's the real India, you have a big funnel [ of ] users who are yet to come on board and experience and taste this internet for the first time.

Tarun Pathak

Found on CNN
3 years ago

What they're trying to do is funnel everybody into this casino ... and hopefully keep them there and hopefully inoculate them from bad news, (The goal is to) make it harder to get voters out of their ecosystem so that they can save them for November.

Stefan Smith

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I've been in this business a very long time -- a half a century, a vaccine pipeline is the shape of a funnel. A lot of things go in one end ; very few things survive.

Myron Levine

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We are a nation of tremendous wealth. Hunger in this country is the result of policies that keep wages low and funnel wealth to the top. It is the result of a political system that says it is OK to spend money on tax breaks for millionaires and the same companies who taint our economy, but we can't afford to fund meals for our kids in the streets.

Ilhan Omar

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Did the bulging magma chamber of the volcano trigger the earthquake? Or did the earthquake trigger the magma chamber to pass magma to the funnel of the volcano?

Costas Synolakis

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We need to get down to one or two entrances into our schools. you have the necessary exits for fire, of course, but we have to funnel our students into our schools so we can put eyes on them.

Dan Patrick

Found on CNN
5 years ago

You have the necessary exits for fire, of course, but we have to funnel our students into our schools so we can put eyes on them.

Greg Abbott

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Maybe his goal was to limit the number of access points, to funnel everyone through a single entrance point, that is perfectly acceptable as long as I have all these other doors for people that are already inside that need to get out in an emergency.

Robert Solomon

Found on CNN
5 years ago

People use the same equipment today for beer-making, the funnel is functional and has been in the same shape for thousands of years.

Li Liu

Found on CNN
7 years ago

What's really happening here is that Washington politicians are using the crisis in Flint as an excuse to funnel taxpayer money to their own home states, and trying to sneak it through the Senate without proper debate and amendment, i respectfully object.

Utah Republican Sen. Mike Lee

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Investors are asking for tightened restricted payments capabilities so that the borrower can’t funnel anywhere near as much or maybe any money out to equity investors before they start repaying the debt.

John Fraser

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

So to suggest that the solution for Syrian refugees in Jordan is to simply funnel more money into refugee camps in Jordan is erroneous.

Naomi Steinberg

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The only number that matters to anybody is the win number, right? i'm looking to build an infrastructure that's going to take the energy that started before us and funnel it into something real. The biggest part of any campaign is spending the time and investing the resources in recruiting, training and motivating volunteers.

Julia Barnes

Found on CNN
8 years ago

What we’ve seen overnight is the prelude of things to come, following the signing of the nuclear agreement and the lifting of sanctions. An Iran that can funnel additional funds and weapons to terror organizations operating against Israel and Western interests in the region.

Israeli Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

These waterways form a funnel that directed the water into the Industrial Canal.

John Lopez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The bill would require the U.S. Treasury to mint coins that would funnel up to $4.75 million to Dallas-based Susan G. Komen -- an organization that notoriously funds abortion giant Planned Parenthood.

Heritage Action

Found on CNN
8 years ago

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