funnel
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
Over the years, money was funneled from Hudson’s Bay to support the U.S. businesses and then when Hudson’s Bay was struggling after the pandemic, money from the U.S. went to support the Canadian chain.
If fixed costs rise, remember to also funnel more dollars into your emergency fund, they say.
From MarketWatch
Over billions of years, this process acts like a slow funnel, allowing small amounts of Earth's atmosphere to settle onto the lunar surface.
From Science Daily
The buying spree wasn’t limited to equities: retail investors’ share of option trading volumes is also near records, and they funneled more dollars into the leading gold ETF than in the past five years combined.
Millions more were funnelled into art by Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh, a private jet, and the production of the Hollywood movie "The Wolf of Wall Street" by Najib's stepson.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
