How to Use fountain in a Sentence

fountain

1 of 2 noun

• The crowd gathered around the fountain in the plaza.
• Afterward, in the park, a jazz trio played near the fountain.
  — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• The silver eyes of another glint from the fountain in the Place du Châtelet.
  — Catherine Porter, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2023
• Don’t forget to look out for the clanking bucket fountain, an icon of the city.
  — Petrina Darrah, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Aug. 2023
• The pair drove in circles around a fountain covered in cobwebs in front of their home.
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 2 Nov. 2023
• They’ll be enlivened by dancers cavorting across the lawns, through the playground, around the maze, and around the fountain.
  — Karen Campbell, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Sep. 2023
• During the half-hour between classes, 19 people used the fountain next to the women’s room, and 18 used the one next to the men’s room.
  — Alden Wicker, WIRED, 10 Feb. 2024
• There was talk of flaming duck and a chocolate fountain.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• The signs were not the only thing that separated the fountains.
  — Rodney Coates, The Conversation, 20 Feb. 2024
• Many parks have pools, splash pads, fountains or misting stations to help beat the heat.
  — oregonlive, 12 Aug. 2023
• Outside are a brick patio with a fountain, a gazebo, and a grill; woods; a lawn; a boat slip on the lake; and a 20-car garage.
  — The Week Staff, The Week, 12 Feb. 2023
• The casino hotels in Reno do not have the fountains that grace the Bellagio on the Vegas Strip.
  — Ken Belson, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2024
• The project may even include a 30-foot aluminum sculpture next to a fountain.
  — Abigail Hasebroock, Sun Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
• This path will take you all the way downtown to Point State Park, where a fountain marks the intersection of the three rivers.
  — Richelle Szypulski, Travel + Leisure, 3 Apr. 2023
• Outside are fountains, a fire pit, a pool with a waterfall and a putting green.
  — Catherine Reagor, The Arizona Republic, 8 Jan. 2024
• Bakhmut’s central square has the usual things: a town hall, a fountain, shops and restaurants.
  — Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
• To drink, the restaurant offers Thai tea and fountain sodas.
  — Endia Fontanez, The Arizona Republic, 4 July 2023
• Did a majority want to hear the fellow by the fountain?
  — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 12 Apr. 2023
• There’s als a separate gym as well as a loggia off the great room with a 400-year-old fountain.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 4 July 2023
• Follow the trail to Fountain Rock Park for a peek at the fountain — yes, in rock — before heading back.
  — Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
• On another side of the room is the blood fountain, with a lion’s head and a cascade of blood coming out of it.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 14 Apr. 2023
• Her stern rose higher in the air and then was gone, sending a small fountain spray of sea water up toward the sky.
  — Richard Sandomir, New York Times, 17 Feb. 2024
• Even the fountain that memorialized the bombing was crushed in the 2001 attacks.
  — Arkansas Online, 27 Feb. 2023
• Before the war, the area abutting the school had been a little park, complete with burbling fountain.
  — Sabra Ayres, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2024
• Soft-serve, fountain drinks, Nor’Easters (not to be confused with Blizzards or Wizards), and more are all here.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
• Live video from the area showed fountains of bright-orange molten rock spewing from fissures in the ground, in sharp contrast to the still-dark night sky.
  — Reuters, CNN, 8 Feb. 2024
• Each of the four courtyards has fountains and columns that resemble those on the outside of the building.
  — Mark Sherman, Fortune, 13 Oct. 2023
• The family room has a wet bar and leads to the pool and a fountain, which are alongside a woodburning fireplace.
  — Allie Beth Allman & Associates, Dallas News, 29 Apr. 2023
• At night, the fountain in downtown’s Lafayette Square is surrounded by twinkling lights strung through the trees.
  — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 31 Aug. 2023
• The Woolworth and a Walgreens had full-service fountains and restaurant counters.
  — Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2024

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fountain

2 of 2 verb

• The lava from these fissures can sometimes fountain high into the air, driven by pressurized gases that also escape through the fissures, but there is no plume of ash.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 11 May 2018
• Lava fountains 300 ft high during May 5 fissure eruption in Leilani Estates.
  — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 7 May 2018
• Scientists say the lava leaking from the Kilauea volcano is fountaining up to 250 feet in the air and flowing at much higher-than-normal temperatures.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 1 June 2018
• Volcano scientists are also captivated, like much of the general public, by the sheer spectacle of the eruption: visions of red-hot lava fountaining out of cracks in the Earth and towering columns of ash shooting five miles into the sky.
  — Author: Scott Wilson, Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2018
• Geologists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory say that lava is consistently fountaining from Fissure 8, reaching heights up to 180 feet, feeding the flow.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 6 June 2018
• The lava from these fissures can sometimes fountain high into the air, driven by pressurized gases that also escape through the fissures, but there is no plume of ash.
  — Scott K. Johnson, Ars Technica, 11 May 2018
• Lava fountains 300 ft high during May 5 fissure eruption in Leilani Estates.
  — Don Sweeney, sacbee, 7 May 2018
• Scientists say the lava leaking from the Kilauea volcano is fountaining up to 250 feet in the air and flowing at much higher-than-normal temperatures.
  — Trevor Hughes, USA TODAY, 1 June 2018
• Volcano scientists are also captivated, like much of the general public, by the sheer spectacle of the eruption: visions of red-hot lava fountaining out of cracks in the Earth and towering columns of ash shooting five miles into the sky.
  — Author: Scott Wilson, Sarah Kaplan, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2018
• Geologists at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory say that lava is consistently fountaining from Fissure 8, reaching heights up to 180 feet, feeding the flow.
  — Alan Taylor, The Atlantic, 6 June 2018

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024