Siphon is an English word with synonyms like syphon or position. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Siphon meaning
- A bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other, in which hydrostatic pressure exerted due to the force of gravity moves liquid from one reservoir to another.
- A soda siphon.
- A tubelike organ found in animals or elongated cell found in plants.
Synonyms of Siphon
Using Siphon
- The main meaning on this page is: A bent pipe or tube with one end lower than the other, in which hydrostatic pressure exerted due to the force of gravity moves liquid from one reservoir to another. | A soda siphon. | A tubelike organ found in animals or elongated cell found in plants.
- Useful related words include: syphon, position, pose, place.
- In the example corpus, siphon often appears in combinations such as: to siphon, siphon off, the siphon.
Context around Siphon
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 11 middle, 8 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Siphon
- In this selection, "siphon" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, giving, mary, diameter, off, skill and debuff stand out and add context to how "siphon" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include as giving siphon hits against and is to siphon it to. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "siphon" sits close to words such as abingdon, abrahams and abuzz, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with siphon
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Beating The Ascended in is not difficult if players pay attention to her Siphon skill. (15 words)
She used the false pregnancy to siphon my money, claiming she was attending antenatal care. (15 words)
Therefore, you don’t know whether or not you will see the Siphon Augments on there based on chance. (19 words)
NextEra was recently embroiled in scandal after its Florida subsidiary was spending millions to fund “ghost candidates” trying to siphon votes away from Democratic candidates, aiding in the utility’s push to weaken solar programs in the Sunshine State. (39 words)
He also said some ByteDance employees still maintained access to some U.S. user data, but that would end once Project Texas – the company’s plan to siphon off U.S. user data from China – was completed. (37 words)
The incentives to commit fraud were so strong that even some officials tasked with overseeing the distribution of benefits were tempted to siphon off a larger portion of the free-flowing funds. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
According to the statement, the APC is calling for the apprehension of the bannerman for allegedly operating Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) used to siphon and divert public funds.
Beating The Ascended in is not difficult if players pay attention to her Siphon skill.
Bloom state can be removed with buff dispelling Skills, while the Siphon debuff can be eliminated by using cleansing Skills.
He also said some ByteDance employees still maintained access to some U.S. user data, but that would end once Project Texas – the company’s plan to siphon off U.S. user data from China – was completed.
I would like to start by mentioning that one of them is ‘Shotgun Striker’, which is described as giving siphon hits against players.
NextEra was recently embroiled in scandal after its Florida subsidiary was spending millions to fund “ghost candidates” trying to siphon votes away from Democratic candidates, aiding in the utility’s push to weaken solar programs in the Sunshine State.
She used the false pregnancy to siphon my money, claiming she was attending antenatal care.
The incentives to commit fraud were so strong that even some officials tasked with overseeing the distribution of benefits were tempted to siphon off a larger portion of the free-flowing funds.
Therefore, you don’t know whether or not you will see the Siphon Augments on there based on chance.
While some believed the project was ill-timed, others thought it was a ploy to siphon the state government’s money.
A break on the St. Mary siphon pipe that happened on the St. Mary Canal outside of Babb, Mont., on Monday, June 17, 2024.
A field with little slope, a long run, and a longer set time will use a larger diameter siphon tube.
Can he get to 90, can he get to 85? And was he to stick around 80, do some of those people just siphon off to Kennedy,” Coughlin questioned.
Meanwhile, in Delta state, troops intercepted a tanker truck positioned to siphon crude oil from Platform Petroleum Limited Pipeline at Obiukwole Community in Ethiope East LGA.
The ads opposed to the amendment have said it would siphon tax dollars away from public schools to fund private school vouchers that would disproportionately benefit the wealthy in urban areas.
The conventional wisdom in Washington has long been that Kennedy is running a spoiler campaign against President Joe Biden, trying to siphon off enough Democratic votes that Donald Trump wins the election.
The Greens pledged new laws to "fight privatisation" in the NHS, claiming outsourced contracts siphon off £1bn from the health service.
The intention is to siphon it, to afloat the vessel, to salvage it, and put it on the shore to prevent further oil spill,” he added.
Third-party candidates offer to the disillusioned voter – the voter who refuses to vote for “the lesser of two evils” – an alternative that will siphon off the protest vote.
Under the guise of providing choice, vouchers undermine public education, siphon off resources, perpetuate segregation, and widen disparities in educational opportunities.
Common combinations with siphon
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: