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

While Chris Pratt may have been a fount of charisma in the early 2010s, his well dried up by the time he ever got in front of a green-screened tyrannosaurus.

From Salon • Jul. 3, 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

I ’member how thankful I was when the boy got to Doc’s house and fount him home.

From "The Journey of Little Charlie" by Christopher Paul Curtis