How to Use fount in a Sentence

fount

noun

• Without his father around for the past month, DeRozan has had to look to others as a fount of strength and comfort.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Mar. 2021
• The Senate, no longer a fount of ideas, became a backwater of the U.S. government.
  — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2021
• And that, too, makes perfect sense within the world this film creates—as does its suggestion that Oscar Wilde is the fount of glam rock.
  — Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2021
• Lewis, a fount of geniality, is one of many attendees who are interviewed for the film.
  — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 25 June 2021
• Agatha Christie is a category unto herself, the grand dame, the fount from which so much mystery writing springs.
  — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022
• Like, what happened? Laura Marsh: Silicon Valley likes to present itself as a fount of progress.
  — The Politics Of Everything, The New Republic, 1 Mar. 2023
• That could have meant putting up over $30 billion of his own cash––the most likely fount, of course, was selling and margining Tesla shares and vested options.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 13 May 2022
• And of course, the all-knowing, all-oversharing fount of social media, which demands its own form of minute analysis.
  — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
• This was the venom: whiteness as sign for the treasure America so covets, the treasure of great art—Europe its sacred fount.
  — Matthew Gavin Frank, Harper's Magazine, 7 Mar. 2022
• Trending Then there’s Kathy Schroeder, an unrepentant survivor who proves to be a one-woman fount of cringe.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2023
• The debacle at least gave comedians a fount of punchlines.
  — Donald Liebenson, Town & Country, 25 Mar. 2022
• Walt Whitman, one of Rorty’s heroes, read Emerson, the fount of American pragmatism, and was inspired.
  — Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
• Since then, Ruta, 21, and Juico, 22, have built a loyal social media audience on the back of a never-ending fount of theories.
  — Amos Barshad, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2022
• But the important thing to remember is that now, there is one less fount of hateful conspiracy theories on air.
  — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2023
• It's widely regarded as a success and has served as a fount of expertise for any city looking into a similar program.
  — Peter Nickeas, CNN, 4 June 2021
• That’s why the places where engineers, designers, and workers come together—whether in Detroit, Silicon Valley, or Shenzhen—have always been the fount of progress.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 15 June 2021
• Once a marvel of logistics that hummed with scheduling rigor and pricing predictability, the fount of goods has slowed to a trickle as key supply links have broken down in recent months.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2021
• There is something incredibly soothing about being swept up, night after night, in its fount of information.
  — New York Times, 5 May 2021
• What distinguishes modern wellness, aside from its expansiveness, is its relentless focus on the self as the fount of all improvement.
  — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
• Across the hundred and twenty films that screened, a critic for Women & Film noticed a trend: a fount of documentaries that highlighted the vexing banalities of women’s lives, drawn from the candor and fury of their everyday.
  — Phoebe Chen, The New York Review of Books, 27 June 2020
• Duncan is an ideal tour guide: witty, engaging, knowledgeable and a fount of diverting anecdotes.
  — Washington Post Editors and Reviewers, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
• Here, the untrammeled imagination presents itself not as a fount of invention but an instrument of oppression.
  — James Campbell, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2021
• The clout-chasing Sackson is an excellent update to the cast, as is the avant-garde chef Lucy (Zoë Chao), who serves as a delicious vehicle for foodie parody, a satirical fount untapped by the original seasons.
  — Inkoo Kang, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2023
• Alberto is a classic Huck Finn type, a freckled swashbuckler and cheerful fount of misinformation.
  — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 18 June 2021
• Parameswaran coaxes the graceful, elegant best out of the strings, producing in effect a fount of sunny lyricism that continually yields new, welcoming vistas.
  — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 4 June 2021
• For Apple, the country itself represents a fount of future growth, at a time the Chinese economy is sputtering after years of punishing Covid Zero restrictions.
  — Sankalp Phartiyal, Bloomberg.com, 13 Apr. 2023
• From ancient Egypt to Silicon Valley, Duncan is an ideal tour guide: witty, engaging, knowledgeable and a fount of diverting anecdotes.
  — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2022
• The question is whether the government can reclaim its stature as a fount of scientific innovation, as Public Citizen advocates.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2021
• Ten Mile Brewing Company is more like the business manifestation of how members of a loving family support one another than a fount of social upheaval.
  — Kyle Smith, National Review, 18 Apr. 2021
• The very idea of the speaker as the fount of political action, inspiring ordinary people to act, stems from this liberal historical imagination.
  — Priya Satia, The New Republic, 20 May 2022

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024