The word "funnels" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word "funnels" to refer to a tube-shaped object used to direct or channel a flow of a liquid or other material into a smaller opening. For example, "The chef used funnels to pour the batter into the cupcake tins."
Industrial justice leads to industrial detention: Operation Streamline funnels 30% of all those convicted into the waiting beds of detention centers run by one of the county's three largest for-profit prison operators.
The road to Mecca funnels traffic into two lanes: the one marked "Muslims only" goes to the holy city; the other, marked "Non Muslims", bypasses it, since the latter – me included – are forbidden entry to Mecca (and Medina) under Saudi law.
It is Greece's summer ritual: the arrival of the island ferry, funnels billowing, horns blaring, gangplanks screeching as wide-eyed tourists prepare to disembark.
The Senate plan funnels more money to some programmes such as child care for low-income families, scientific research, food inspection and cyber-security, and gives bureaucrats a bit more flexibility in allocating money.
"In ten to 15 years a few universities will have a place in the top international league," says Matthias Kleiner, head of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which funnels money to research.
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American politicians have begun pressuring China to revalue its currency, even though the peg is essentially subsidising America's budget deficit (since it forces the Chinese central bank to buy massive amounts of dollars, which it then funnels into Treasuries).
"Any hint of co-operation with Hamas," says an UNRWA man, "and half our funding would go up in smoke".For their part, some Hamas officials, besieged and hungry for cash, look enviously at the UN on account of the nearly $500m it funnels to Gazans every year.
On it is the name of a fixer in Singapore who is active in the Indian city of Hyderabad and who funnels illicit funds offshore.
Separated from the rest of Los Angeles by the Hollywood Hills, they complain that the city government funnels far more out of the Valley in taxes than it ever returns in the form of transport (the city subway never got this far) and law enforcement.
Viewed from the finance department, it looks more like two funnels joined together by their spouts (see chart 1).
