How To Use Siphon In A Sentence

Complicated cross-shareholdings in the keiretsu style are typical in Asia, where controlling families and their cronies siphon much wealth away from shareholders.
Recently there was some research done which showed that of the sports that are on the anti-siphoning list, the free-to-airs had in fact only shown 16% of telecasts of those sports.
Try siphonophores, gelatinous animals that live in the deep sea, whose abundance is only now being measured by scientists in Monterey Bay, but may take the prize.
They stopped every five miles to suck gas into the siphon and feed the engine.
That's how his bloodsucker business manager siphoned off so much of his money. LADY BE GOOD

She puts a piece of plastic tubing in her mouth and starts siphoning gas from a huge metal drum.
The simplest solutions like siphoning the washing water onto the garden are the most effective in the long run.
The solid sludge is siphoned off and burnt in a steam engine to produce enough electricity to process the next batch of waste. Times, Sunday Times
It had been steadily gaining nutrients as his career developed, siphoning off its share of each ill-gotten gain. PROSPECT HILL
He was put on a little silver tray, and an ingeniously wrought siphon showered him with pure water, which the faqir had no doubt drawn from some sacred well or spring. Love and Life Behind the Purdah
Money is being siphoned off. Times, Sunday Times
Wine makers now can siphon the wine from one barrel to the next in order to leave the solids, called pomace, in the bottom of the fermenting tank. Berks county news
There is no indication of a further siphoning off of support in the Assembly.
After several false starts, we managed to get the siphon working.
Seriously, what else can you call a comically evil bunch of thugs who siphon off 1/6 of our GDP? Think Progress » Companies infused eight lobbyists for every federal lawmaker into the health care debate.
It is an integral entity which is made up of a manual corrugated pipe or sleeve piston pump and a flow controlling valve. It is suitable for liquid suction, pressing and siphoning.
After his two best friends are shown the door, he hatches a plot with them to steal money from the firm by planting a money-siphoning computer virus within its system
An unspecified and unlimited amount of investors' money is siphoned off in fees to at least a dozen different agents, from administrators to brokers. Times, Sunday Times
The meat of this clam is often sliced into cutlets and fried while the siphon is often skinned and then ground in a food processor or chopper and used in chowders.
Kandel and his colleagues began by asking what was the neural circuit which underlies the gill and siphon withdrawal response.
Flood prevention work, including the installation of a large siphon pipe through the centre of the village, was carried out after serious flooding in 1995.
Boris Fyodorov survived the attack and returned to accuse senior Kremlin aides of siphoning cash out of the fund.
Former staff describe a rude breadhead who siphons off the profits rather than paying his team their worth.
To detect prey, a cone snail uses its siphon, an organ that takes up water and directs it over the gills.
Acrostichum, a Bolbophyllum, a rare Aristolochia foliis palmatis, 7 lobis, subtus glaucis; sapor peracerbus, floribus _siphonicis_. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
As a new type of drainage and irrigation of the dock, siphon has the advantages of simple structure, protection against sand and water and rapid set-off.
The chips then passed through various buffer companies before being re-exported to Ireland and then re-imported to Britain. £7m in VAT which should have been paid to Customs was siphoned off.
Complex, highly integrated colonies, such as siphonophores, display a well defined colony shape with determinate growth.
The port protector caps have a wick-type design to assure water passage through the siphonage drain lines.
Solar collector tube, steam separator, riser and downcomer tubes, air well, siphon tubes, and immersion heater together make up a closed circuit, partly filled with water. Chapter 8
Now we learn a massive 8.5 BILLION has been siphoned off to bail out schools and hospitals. The Sun
I siphoned the white powder into the virulent dark chemical drink, replaced the top and turned it upside down, shook it gently. FAITHLESS: TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
Does this dynamite duo have some high-test fuel in their karate tanks, or did the first Rage and Honor siphon it all away?
This Portuguese man-of-war is a type of siphonophore often found in tropical waters. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
It was designed to install the ZeuS banking Trojan, which, along with the Clampi banking Trojan, is commonly used to siphon funds, via wire transfers, from small business banking accounts. Personalized spam attacks target small businesses
Surgeons siphoned off fluid from his left lung.
As he looked out of the window, he saw a young man siphoning petrol from his car.
The individuals of the colony are called zooids and many zooids with individual siphonal openings cover the surface of the colony.
I note what the hon. Gentleman said about the siphoning off of food aid.
A police spokesman said that the man admitted to trying to steal gasoline and plugged his siphon hose into the motor home's sewage tank by mistake.
Emergency aid was siphoned off by foreign ministry officials for their own use.
Criminal gangs may have siphoned millions from lottery grants
There are 12 endemic species found here, including two species, the Seychelles Scops-owl (Otus insularis CR) and the Seychelles paradise-flycatcher (Terpsiphone corvine CR), which are confined to single islands. Granitic Seychelles forests
The princes are siphoning off the country's riches.
Water containing minute food particles is admitted through the incurrent siphon into the pharyngeal basket.
It may look like a jellyfish but it's actually a siphonophore, fact fans. Home
In Mr. Black's case, prosecutors had alleged that Mr. Black, the former chairman of Hollinger International Inc., and other executives supported lavish lifestyles by siphoning off millions from the company through bogus management fees and noncompetition agreements as Hollinger sold off many of its smaller newspapers. High Court Sides With Skilling, Black
siphon gas into the tank
One never got large enough to really test the theory; in the second one, having a siphon worked quite well.
Adult tabularial surfaces very gently convex, or slightly depressed periaxially, downturned in interseptal loculi and deeply depressed in cardinal siphonofossula.
The payments are then siphoned to Bermuda, which does not levy corporation tax. Times, Sunday Times
He ran off and they siphoned the petrol from his van.
She puts a piece of plastic tubing in her mouth and starts siphoning gas from a huge metal drum.
Furies > (In later accounts, Tisiphone, Megaera, and Alecto, three goddesses who guard the gates of hell; in earlier accounts, they are avenging deities, of indeterminate number, sent from hell to punish wrongdoers) aslake > assuage; cool The Faerie Queene — Volume 01
Water is drawn through the incurrent siphon into the infrabranchial chamber, filtered through the gills into the suprabranchial chamber and is expelled through the excurrent siphon.
No payment is ever made and any money inadvertently paid by an unsuspecting victim is siphoned off into the fraudsters hands.
The company can do very little to stop Ukraine's gas company from siphoning off extra gas.
Shareholders are also pressing: they see the bank levy as billions of pounds of their money being siphoned off. Times, Sunday Times
The more money that is siphoned into prisons for emergency short-term fixes, the less is available elsewhere. Times, Sunday Times
Slowed by dams and spillways, with much of its flow siphoned off for users around the West, the lower Colorado is highly controlled.
Emergency aid was siphoned off by foreign ministry officials for their own use.
He would use victims' financial information to open new accounts under their names, and then siphon money from their legitimate accounts into the new, fraudulent ones.
But it's wrong that their money is simply siphoned into the party's coffers. The Sun
Shareholders are also pressing: they see the bank levy as billions of pounds of their money being siphoned off. Times, Sunday Times
This has the effect of greatly increasing the strength of the withdrawal reflex in response to subsequence stimulation of the siphon alone.
Water is brought into its body through the incurrent siphon and the water is removed from its body through the excurrent siphon. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
A siphon tube evacuates the condensate via the downcomer back to the collector tube. Chapter 8
The supply pipe has a siphon-piece of "compo" tubing at the top, to draw off the water when the tube has been filled by suction, and a small tap at the bottom. Things To Make
She puts a piece of plastic tubing in her mouth and starts siphoning gas from a huge metal drum.
The main axis is polysiphonous and corticate with simple monosiphonous lateral branches arranged spirally around the main axes.
Siphonic drew the rail, and he will have jockey Mike Smith in the irons.
The big clubs siphon off all the best players.
An investigation by a South Yorkshire environmental health team which revealed condemned meat was being siphoned back into the food chain is to feature on TV.
The pinnacle of hydrozoan colonial complexity can be found in members of the Family Siphonophora.
Instead select people siphoned off the money, returning it to the vaults of western banks. Times, Sunday Times
A 20-tonne capacity water truck can be filled in half an hour and standpipes have been set up for people to siphon off the water.
Alecto is ready to annihilate us all in a fit of rage, Tisiphone will happily punish us with death for all of our misdeeds, and Megaera wants to shred us out of jealousy. The Three Furies
The OED definition of the word erroneously states that atmospheric pressure makes siphons work, when in fact it is the force of gravity. Today.Az
Money is being siphoned off. Times, Sunday Times
Just as well as the seal in traps may be forced back by the increased pressure of the air within the pipes, the same seal may be _forced out_, pulled out, aspirated, or siphoned out by a sudden withdrawal of a large quantity of air from the pipes with which the trap is connected. The Home Medical Library, Volume V (of VI)
I siphoned the white powder into the virulent dark chemical drink, replaced the top and turned it upside down, shook it gently. FAITHLESS: TALES OF TRANSGRESSION
The way the siphon directs the water stream controls the animal's forward, backward, and sideways movements.
The siphonophores have achieved a degree of integration such that they are often regarded as solitary organisms in spite of their colonial organization.
Though I could no longer see the clam, I knew it had pushed its siphon to the surface for feeding, and it occurred to me that the hydroid, by creating an eddy in the swash, might actually help the clam obtain food.
The circuit siphons off most of the current through RLS to ground as the collector current of Q1.
A siphon is a simple tube that runs from the inside of the pond over the bank and lies on the ground outside the pond. Chapter 5
He is credited with ensuring that government funding for education was not siphoned off for other purposes.
Higher up still, bloomed the rosy viscaria, the yellow leptosiphon, the white colinsia, and the lagurus, whose dusty green bloom contrasted with the glowing colours around it. La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
Money is being siphoned off. Times, Sunday Times
It can take several days to achieve full adult colour and a hard exoskeleton. breathing through a siphon replenishing the plastron cursorial legs raptorial legs natatorial legs rowing legs
Governments buy support by spending money, not by siphoning it away in taxes.
They have internal separations of body parts arranged in hexamerous cycles and usually with two ciliated oral cavities (siphonoglyphs).
Shareholders are also pressing: they see the bank levy as billions of pounds of their money being siphoned off. Times, Sunday Times
Lippold made the decision to use a diesel-powered combustible pump to siphon the water out of the space.
Engineers are now telling the town that it could take up to three years for the permafrost under the arena to freeze back so that the thermal siphons can maintain it at that temperature.
Not one to waste time, I unscrewed the gas cap and slipped the siphon tube into the tank.
Effects of temperature elevation on a field population of '' Acyrthosiphon svalbardicum '' (Hemiptera: Aphididae) on Spitsbergen. Phenotypic responses of arctic species to changes in climate and ultraviolet-B radiation
Mousse cake: In a siphon, Ms. Wong adds a batter made from chocolate, Evian water and egg whites, and freezes the entire mixture until it is chilled and semisolid scoopable, like ice cream. A guilt-free, low-calorie, low-fat cake
Prosecutors originally had alleged that Mr. Black, the former chairman of media conglomerate Hollinger International Inc., and other executives supported lavish lifestyles by siphoning millions of dollars from the company through bogus management fees and noncompetition agreements as Hollinger sold off many of its smaller newspapers. Conrad Black Sent Back to Prison for 13 Months
The taphonomy and paleoecology of this giant foraminiferan are briefly evaluated based on comparison with modern examples of Bathysiphon and with other Cretaceous examples from the same region.
But it's wrong that their money is simply siphoned into the party's coffers. The Sun
Ankit also spoke of a cyber criminal who had siphoned off money from an American bank, and another who had managed to break into the satellite control system of a space organization.
Ostensibly for agricultural purposes, the credits had been siphoned off by Saddam Hussein to rebuild his military and weapons program after the Iran-Iraq war.
In this case, tightly fitting dampers are required to prevent reverse thermosiphoning at night, which could freeze water in the heat exchanger coil.
'To attempt to kick against natural necessity,' he says in his own name, and in his own peculiar and more impressive method of philosophic instruction -- 'to attempt to kick against natural necessity, is to represent the folly of Ctesiphon, who undertook to outkick his mule.' The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded
If the cup was half full for the older triplets, it was half empty for Alecto, Tisiphone, and Megaera. The Three Furies
Dr Stephen Hughes said he had discovered last year that the dictionary's definition of the word siphon, and most other dictionaries ', was incorrect. PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
Industry observers estimate that fraud continues to siphon millions of dollars from the system each year.
While he didn't invent the toilet, Thomas Crapper perfected the siphon flush system we use today.
Chondrophorines were once classified with another unusual group of hydrozoans, the siphonophores.
Hastings police say it's amazing the unnamed man didn't blow himself up when he held the lighter to the siphon.
Hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars have been "siphoned off" by a Kapiti runanga, with some used to prop up failed business ventures, a police report alleges. Stuff.co.nz - Stuff
The illegal use of public employees 'pension funds of was one of the channels for siphoning off money to political parties in the "bribes for vote" scandal, known as the mensalão, which overshadowed Lula's first term in office and wrecked any idea that the PT was more ethical than other parties it always claimed were corrupt. Home
The big clubs siphon off all the best players.
False claims of up to £1,000 a year appear to have been siphoned into fraudsters' bank accounts.
He had siphoned off a small fortune in aid money from the United Nations.
Some siphonophores may reach lengths of over a meter and migrate up to 300 meters vertically in the water column in an hour.
The lower reach of the St. Francis River, south of Marked Tree, is isolated by surrounding levees, the Huxtable Pumping Plant to the south, and a pair of one-way siphons to the north.
But even their auditor-general admits there have been problems, with senior officials at the General Administration of Sports siphoning off £7.5m from funds earmarked for the Olympics.
Chefs are adopting new methods not just because they are adventurous, but because things like sous vide cooking (in a bag under pressure), foam siphons (nitrous oxide-filled whipped-cream dispensers) and anti-griddles (quick-freezing surfaces) make it possible to produce fascinating sensory delights that couldn't have been created just a few years ago. The Seattle Times
The common way of flushing water closet were straight - and two - siphon.
Many think of it as a jellyfish, but in fact it is a siphonophore—a colony of minute individuals. SuperCooperators
This water passes over the gills where two things happen before the water is returned to the environment by the exhalant siphon. Mollusca
That's how his bloodsucker business manager siphoned off so much of his money. LADY BE GOOD
The incurrent siphon brings water into the gills and mucus secreted by the gills and the palps, which are organs surrounding the clams mouth, capture tiny bits of food CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
No money was siphoned off,' she said. Times, Sunday Times
Take the other end of the siphon, which is closed with the plug, over the top of the bank and put it on the ground outside the pond. Chapter 5
The tanks ground to a halt after a hundred yards because the fuel had been siphoned out.
Steamers are soft-shelled clams that also have long siphons that protrude from their thin brittle shells.
I siphoned the gasoline out of the car into a can.
The pair are said to have pinched the keys to the base's fuel pumps and siphoned off thousands of gallons. The Sun
Other colonial hydrozoans, such as the chondrophorines and siphonophorans, are pelagic; many of these have developed internal gas-filled floats as an aid to buoyancy.
The money would be siphoned into different accounts in other banks. Times, Sunday Times
These animals are also more capable of avoiding coral overgrowth by greatly elongating their siphons.
One red algal species and two green algae occuffed in stomachs at all three sites: Polysiphonia sp., Ulva sp., and Enteromorpha sp.
She puts a piece of plastic tubing in her mouth and starts siphoning gas from a huge metal drum.
No money was siphoned off,' she said. Times, Sunday Times
The upkeep of the Olympic facilities after 2000 will continue to be a burden on the State budget and so represent a further siphoning off from social welfare and other necessary expenditure.
The payments are then siphoned to Bermuda, which does not levy corporation tax. Times, Sunday Times
The invention relates to a closestool with an adjustable siphon tube, which comprises a closestool, a flushing tank, a siphon tube height adjuster, a siphon tube and a leakage-preventing sleeve.
The bottom is gray, sandy, silt actually dragged out from the land and ground up by the ice, its surface dimpled by countless millions of clams, all but their siphons buried.
It took him only a few minutes to siphon off the petrol and drive away.
The drain standpipe should always be taller than your highest water level in the machine to add protection from back-up water and siphoning.
Both black and grey water is siphoned into a storage tank, where it is mixed, and then put into the bio-reactor.
First, they threaten to siphon off money from advertising budgets.
This series is normally used in health hazard applications to protect against back siphonage and backpressure.
The shrimp will accumulate at the light for easy siphoning.
Because of the constant attention that these stovetop brewers require, and their more difficult cleanup, you're not likely to use a siphon as your everyday pot.
This includes parcel drainage and the so-called siphon watering. MAIN CEREMONY-30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GUISA BATT
The Government wants to siphon funds off and transfer them elsewhere.
Ironically, Siphon himself is not an outcross, having the close relatives Irish Song (BRZ) and Eridan 3 x 3 in his pedigree. Thoroughbred News | BloodHorse.com
Emergency aid was siphoned off by foreign ministry officials for their own use.
It is much more likely that the relationship between the siphon and the absinthe was contrived by the artists.
An enterprising young man in the Ukraine is siphoning credit card numbers off the Web for his employer, a criminal syndicate, which compiles and sells them in bulk to the highest bidder.
Between food-thievery, vehicle hot-wiring and gas-siphoning, Cowen jokes that he has learned a new set of skills.
With the siphon in place and a pump to hand, the event was unexpected and, as yet, remains unexplained.
And it was, understandably, an uneven production, coddled in Sky Sports-style doom-laden graphics, given weight by the restrained but nicely persistent questioning of Gabriel Clarke in the stadium, and siphoned rather jarringly through the expert but gurglingly partisan commentary of Clive Tyldesley "Ji-sung Park SWEEPS in the equaliser! Adrian Chiles's chumminess strikes right tone as ITV treads carefully | Barney Ronay
The West has always been a safety valve to siphon these so-called dregs of other nations out of populated areas and prevent any social or political unrest. Stands a Calder Man
The waste liquid needs to be siphoned off.
The pair are said to have pinched the keys to the base's fuel pumps and siphoned off thousands of gallons. The Sun
He then began to illegally siphon his money from US bank accounts to offshore tax havens through a series of ingenious shell companies.
An unspecified and unlimited amount of investors' money is siphoned off in fees to at least a dozen different agents, from administrators to brokers. Times, Sunday Times
Earlier this month, an article in the Courier Post, citing anonymous sources, alleged that independent candidate Peter DeStefano, an unknown picture-framer who framed himself as a tea-party pick, was nothing more than a plant, handpicked by Adler operatives to siphon votes from Runyan. Phillies Zone
Install a vacuum relief anti - siphon device in the cold water inlet line.
She puts a piece of plastic tubing in her mouth and starts siphoning gas from a huge metal drum.
But in heavy rain an overflow valve under the river siphoned untreated waste, including sulfureous waste, directly into the waterway.
Adult tabularial surfaces very gently convex, or slightly depressed periaxially, downturned in interseptal loculi and deeply depressed in cardinal siphonofossula.
I originally started the honey fermenting Dec. 30, 2008, and racked the mead on Feb. 2, 2009, at which point I siphoned off a couple of gallons of which to make a muscadine-infused mead didn't turn out so well. Jayme Lynn Blaschke's Gibberish
Instead select people siphoned off the money, returning it to the vaults of western banks. Times, Sunday Times
The general secretary of the Headteachers Association of Scotland, suggested councils were siphoning off education money and said it was time for the iron grip of councils on Scottish education to be weakened.
Instead select people siphoned off the money, returning it to the vaults of western banks. Times, Sunday Times
And highfliers with thriving core businesses pump capital into excess capacity or real estate boondoggles - or siphon funds into private projects.
Mr. Adri à 's "foams," made with a siphon, and "airs," created by emulsifying the foam on food that has liquified, have been imitated by chefs around the globe — with varying degrees of success. Putting on Airs
The payments are then siphoned to Bermuda, which does not levy corporation tax. Times, Sunday Times
The city's residents hustle odd jobs and steal electricity through spliced-on cables that siphon off the juice for free.
A siphon, which is very small, usually does not have a screen. Chapter 5
Money from taxpayers and lottery players is being siphoned into training opportunities for athletes from often wealthy backgrounds. Times, Sunday Times
The siphon is a tubular formation arising from the edge of the mantle. Melongena's siphon
It is an integral entity which is made up of a manual corrugated pipe or sleeve piston pump and a flow controlling valve. It is suitable for liquid suction, pressing and siphoning.
An unspecified and unlimited amount of investors' money is siphoned off in fees to at least a dozen different agents, from administrators to brokers. Times, Sunday Times
They also have a specialized siphon jet under its mantle and propels them as well.
But thanks to the mudslinging campaign in Denver, we are seeing the term "reform" hijacked, with it now being distorted to mean everything from defunding neighborhood schools to demonizing teachers to siphoning money out of public education entirely. Michael Merrifield: Emily Sirota Offers True Reform for DPS
But it's wrong that their money is simply siphoned into the party's coffers. The Sun
I'll drill a hole in the top of the cup and you can siphon the water out with a straw.
After that, he may probe other, bigger cases which siphoned off trillions in state funds, with most of the money since having been stashed abroad by the corrupters.
He does have one ‘endearing’ habit though - that of sticking his siphon out of the tank and jetting water over everything in the night.
This is simplest if you have spare cash, shares or other liquid assets that can easily be siphoned off into a trust when you die.
They gave him lists that detailed the locations of abandoned cars along the Bronx River, a major dump site for stolen, joyridden, semistripped, gas-siphoned and pariah-dog vehicles. Underworld
A passing motorist helps him out, and he siphons some petrol back into the scooter.
The officer was attacked as he tried to arrest the man for siphoning petrol from a van.
Named for the Greek god of volcanoes, the Hephaestus Geothermic Siphon consisted of three major components: 365 tomorrows » 2009 » March : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
Complex, highly integrated colonies, such as siphonophores, display a well defined colony shape with determinate growth.
With the continuous dry weather during August and September and the amount of water being siphoned off to supply other areas, the river bed is completely dry and it would certainly not win an environmental award.
If you use a siphon sprayer with your air compressor, you will need one with an external mix nozzle to spray latex.
Building codes may also require anti-siphon or backflow devices, so surface water won't be pulled back into water lines and residential plumbing.
An unspecified and unlimited amount of investors' money is siphoned off in fees to at least a dozen different agents, from administrators to brokers. Times, Sunday Times
Because Wall Street's leaders seem today no better than gamblers living off our losses, the men we have entrusted with floating our boats instead sinking them, siphoning off our economy's lifeblood instead of helping it grow, gaming away all our futures with their fancy futures financing, all for the sake of their own short term rewards. Dr. David Liepert: Should Muslims Occupy Wall Street Too?
Some will be siphoned off to fund the death-dealing, torture-happy goon squads now operating on behalf of various factions in the government.
Thin sclerenchyme covers some tabularial surfaces, especially those in the siphonofossula and peripheral interseptal depressions.
If straining methods do not adequately filter out the fine particles and sediment from the liqueur, try siphoning off the clear liquid.

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