Verb (used with object), verb (used without object) : to siphon water; to siphon off profits into a secret bank account.    From Dictionary.com. 

To "syphon" votes imples that they are being moved from one candidate to another.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Official At Nader's Old Group Sees Obama As Most Reliable Good-Government Ally] Reference

'syphon' out of hotels is as haraam as the maulvi telling you that only and only your sect is the right sect.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bloggers.Pakistan] Reference

The gardener brought a tumbler on a tray, and a syphon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love at Paddington] Reference

A couple of nervous ones Hill behind the syphon waggon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Two For The Lions]

Lot of 3 Playstation games coolboarders and syphon filt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Game Lot | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles] Reference

Some of the forms of non-syphon traps in common use are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Elements of Plumbing] Reference

Senator, may I trouble you to depress the business end of that syphon?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Statesmen Snowbound] Reference

Geoducks are a type of clam that is easily identified by it's large syphon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crisis in the North: Pig War II] Reference

The syphon, beneath Eliot's sudden pressure, squirted out a torrent of soda.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vision of Desire] Reference

So I am working there to syphon off 50,000 or so of this excess, to vote Green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time for Congress to Stand Up in Its Own Defense: Impeach Bush and Cheney Now!] Reference

I found by the syphon barometer that our height above the sea was here 1579 feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia] Reference

I believe that this would allow us to syphon off our oil habit with Saudi Arabia.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Bush Gives Saudi Sex Slaves the A-Okay] Reference

On the table, beside the lamp, was a tantalus and a glass, and a half empty syphon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motor Pirate] Reference

He took a candle and went down to the dining-room in search of a syphon and whiskey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Invisible Man] Reference

A bottle of brandy stood by the side of Fenwick's plate, with a syphon of soda-water.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of the Four Fingers] Reference

The older man leaned over and poured more whiskey for Gornt, then used the soda syphon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Noble House]

They would be more likely to use the hosepipes to syphon the water off into the drains!.    From Wordnik.com.  [A very wet drought] Reference

She went to a corner cupboard, opened it and produced a bottle, a syphon of soda and a glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Mirror Cracked From Side To Side]

Then she offered me a spoonful far more than the little syphon taste and I swallowed it down.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Cider Vinegar Experiment: The Remarkable Final Report] Reference

But it was okay for George Soros and friends to syphon 100's of millions in to the Obama camp.    From Wordnik.com.  [MoveOn takes on Supreme Court] Reference

Though last night, she did insist on sitting on my lap and syphon pieces of salmon off my plate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond Exhausted] Reference

This, evidently, was the water which was being sucked up into the mass of vapour above as if by a syphon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference

Remove the serum with sterile pipettes, or syphon it off, and fill into sterile tubes (5 c.c. in each) or flasks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged.] Reference

A floor syphon should also be fitted to make it easier to clean the floor and to evacuate water in the event of a leak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 6] Reference

Wimsey clattered in again, this time, with more common sense, bringing decanter, syphon three glasses, bodily, on a tray.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unnatural Death]

Decanter and syphon, together with a couple of tumblers, had been placed on the table in readiness by a thoughtful servant.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vision of Desire] Reference

Smiley's efforts to obtain a bottle of whisky and a syphon of soda at half past eleven at night were not immediately rewarded.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Murder of Quality]

"Sit down," he said gruffly, and going back to the little table splashed some whisky into a glass and held it under the syphon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the East] Reference

Too bad they ended up sacrificing their careers to shore up the country's accounting so Republicans could syphon it off to cronies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Obama Directly Attacks Bill's Presidency, Blames It For Massive Dem Losses] Reference

It was the thick-set Evariste who brought the syphon bottle and the small carafe of brandy and the tumblers, and it was she who caught.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

Total length from Adi-Badri to Jyotisar near SYL syphon is about 115 kms.    From Wordnik.com.  [PunjabNewsline News] Reference

Instead of removing the gravel you should invest in a gravel cleaning syphon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Fishkeeping] Reference