FUNNEL in a Sentence
Learn FUNNEL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
Example sentences for FUNNEL, such as:
1. I need a funnel to pour petrol into the tank.
2. He poured the petrol into the car through a funnel.
3. The last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel.
2. He poured the petrol into the car through a funnel.
3. The last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of FUNNEL
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funnel
n. (nautical) smokestack consisting of a shaft for ventilation or the passage of smoke (especially the smokestack of a ship)
n. a conical shape with a wider and a narrower opening at the two ends
Classic Sentence:
1 You must choose the pure oil and you must be careful when you pour it in not to overflow it, not to pour in more than the funnel can hold.
2 The funnel projected through that roof, and in front of the funnel a small cabin built of light planks served for a pilot-house.
3 The passer-by who got entangled from the Rue Saint-Denis in the Rue de la Chanvrerie beheld it gradually close in before him as though he had entered an elongated funnel.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
4 The tunnel ended like the interior of a funnel; a faulty construction, imitated from the wickets of penitentiaries, logical in a prison, illogical in a sewer, and which has since been corrected.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES T...
Context Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—ONE SOMETIMES RUNS AGROUND WHEN ONE FANCIES T...
5 The last of the infantry hurriedly crossed the bridge, squeezing together as they approached it as if passing through a funnel.
Example Sentence:
1 I need a funnel to pour petrol into the tank.
2 It was 18 months ago when the powerful US congressional committee blew the lid on Apple's aggressive corporate tax structure, which allowed it to funnel $US44 billion dollars out of the country through a network of tax haven subsidiaries.
3 He poured the petrol into the car through a funnel.