fount

Example Sentences

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The 99-year-old artist—long excluded from the mainstream, male-dominated art scene in Mexico, and who only had her first major retrospective last year—is a quiet yet forceful fount of tenderness.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 14, 2026

I, too, wish that things were different, that the two men who acted as the fount for the most significant art in my life had been able to pass gently into that good night.

From Salon • Apr. 10, 2025

From times old to current, our culture’s like a fount.

From New York Times • Jul. 14, 2023

Ahmet Ertegun, the Turkish ambassador’s son whose ear for the culture of black America would make his Atlantic Records a legendary fount of 20th century popular music, died Thursday.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2022

He had a simpler nature; he looked up to Balthamos as to the fount of all knowledge and joy.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman