How to Use drinking fountain in a Sentence

drinking fountain

noun

• And the cast bronze basins of drinking fountains are based on dogwood leaves and blossoms.
  — Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
• For years, water from the drinking fountains came out brown.
  — Becca Savransky, ProPublica, 6 Sep. 2023
• There are no drinking fountains, so be sure to bring water.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 12 June 2024
• One hundred years ago, most parks for Black people in Louisville lacked swings, slides and even drinking fountains.
  — Maggie Menderski, The Courier-Journal, 17 Feb. 2023
• Also, fake tickets flooded the park and the drinking fountains weren’t working.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2023
• Last year, Betty Rivas was startled by a letter telling her that the drinking fountains her 8-year-old used at school weren’t safe.
  — Michael Phillis and Brittany Peterson, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Mar. 2023
• Bring a reusable water bottle to fill from the drinking fountain on-site.
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• Newsom said, before posing for photo ops where drinking fountains had been sealed for more than a year.
  — Miriam Pawel, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
• Once the last pitch of the travel baseball season crossed home plate at the River Run baseball field, new concrete was poured for dugouts and a new drinking fountain was installed.
  — Matt Leavitt, cleveland, 18 Aug. 2023
• The city’s reasoning for this has been that lead has been detected in the water at the drinking fountains and that more people now carry their own water.
  — Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2024
• That spring of ’46, while the couple waited at the Pensacola, Fla., airport, Rachel used a whites-only restroom and drank from a whites-only drinking fountain.
  — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 15 Apr. 2022
• Wear a hat and sunscreen, and bring gardening gloves and a reusable water bottle (there’s a drinking fountain on-site).
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 Feb. 2023
• The park is completely fenced with amenities that include a drinking fountain and picnic tables.
  — Patricia Doherty, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2023
• In its guidance for schools, the CDC encourages teachers and students to bring their own water bottles to minimize trips to the drinking fountain.
  — Erica Pearson, Star Tribune, 21 Aug. 2020
• Meanwhile cat owners can't stop raving about the flower drinking fountain.
  — Carly Kulzer, PEOPLE.com, 31 Aug. 2021
• In one tweet, Mr. Milton wrote that the Badger would have a drinking fountain using the water created by the truck’s hydrogen fuel cell.
  — Corinne Ramey, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2022
• There are restrooms, drinking fountains, camping areas and concessions at the endpoint towns, and in between at Norwalk, Wilton and Kendall.
  — Brian E. Clark, Chicago Tribune, 20 Sep. 2023
• The hotel commissioned Kaja Dahl to reenvision a stone drinking fountain that once stood in the wellness area and to fashion vases in granite-like porphyry for the guest suites.
  — James Stewart, Robb Report, 23 Apr. 2022
• For months, the pain in her feet had prevented the elephant from walking down a small hill to a drinking fountain in her enclosure, forcing her handlers to give her water in buckets and by hose.
  — Rachel Nuwer, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
• Wherever life takes you, fill a reusable water bottle at home or at a drinking fountain.
  — Anna Funk, Discover Magazine, 12 Sep. 2019
• At the Shiloh elementary school near Modesto, drinking fountains sit abandoned, covered in clear plastic.
  — Dale Kasler, Phillip Reese and Ryan Sabalow, sacbee, 1 June 2018
• Fixtures tested include drinking fountains and sinks in kitchens, bathrooms and classrooms.
  — Emily Hoerner, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2023
• Additional benefits of the Lower Fall trail is that at the start of it are flushable toilets, picnic tables, and an ice-cold drinking fountain.
  — Chris Van Leuven, Outside Online, 19 Oct. 2022
• As far as a timeline is concerned, Leininger said the drinking fountain waterline and sewer work will begin in the next week followed by the installation of the sidewalk and concrete paths.
  — John Benson, cleveland, 11 Aug. 2021
• Officials decided to pipe the spring water into town with a multi-spouted drinking fountain near the city center.
  — Perri Ormont Blumberg, Travel + Leisure, 10 Feb. 2023
• Most chairs have been removed from employee break rooms, drinking fountains have been taped off and hand-sanitizing stations have been set up throughout the complex.
  — Staff, Indianapolis Star, 23 Apr. 2020
• The fountain was replaced by drinking fountains and covered by a wooden structure in 1924 before being deemed a traffic hazard and removed.
  — Owen Prout, Dallas News, 11 Mar. 2020
• There are additional plans by the Town/Lions to fully extend the paver sidewalks, improve the playground drainage and refurbish the Lions’ drinking fountain.
  — The Aegis, 13 July 2018
• An obstacle course that resembles the nightclub district of Portland, Ore., is set up on the field and players driving muscle cars must avoid hitting light poles, drinking fountains and trees.
  — Carlos Monarrez, Detroit Free Press, 27 Jan. 2018
• New sidewalks have been installed, as has new sod and a new handicapped-accessible drinking fountain.
  — Jeanne Houck, Cincinnati.com, 12 June 2020

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024