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

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