How to Use wellspring in a Sentence

wellspring

noun

• The tour guide was a wellspring of information.
• Germany — and, to some extent, the city of Leeds — is the wellspring of soccer’s ideas.
  — New York Times, 9 Apr. 2021
• That was in the mid-1990s, before the internet shrank the world and the city still seemed a universe away from the wellsprings of hip-hop culture.
  — Andrew Keh, New York Times, 19 Aug. 2019
• As a Ukrainian, Levykin knew that there was a wellspring of rocket know-how in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 17 Mar. 2022
• Those same loans became the wellspring of Donald Trump’s wealth.
  — Susanne Craig, The Seattle Times, 2 Oct. 2018
• Fashion Paris Fashion Week is a wellspring for all that’s shiny and new.
  — Eviana Hartman, Vogue, 16 Oct. 2017
• Epirus is not, by any stretch, the only true wellspring of music left in Europe.
  — Evan Eisenberg, WSJ, 24 May 2018
• Leaphorn is the wellspring of knowledge about law enforcement among the Navajo.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 8 June 2022
• The wellspring of innovation can be found in places that are not going well.
  — Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 18 Sep. 2019
• The just-under-the-surface rage of Roth's novel contains a wellspring of emotion.
  — Ani Bundel, Ars Technica, 17 Mar. 2020
• And Forest Park, a wellspring of green, dotted with free museums and a zoo, is one of the largest urban parks in the country.
  — Kate Silver, chicagotribune.com, 19 June 2018
• As a gay white boy growing up in Apartheid South Africa (circa 1990s), rap music came from a few wellsprings.
  — Daniel Scheffler, Spin, 19 Sep. 2023
• That, and the wellspring of family emotion into which the movie taps, represent the good news.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 5 Mar. 2020
• And for Terry and her staff, the project is a wellspring of good vibes and fresh momentum as the expansion dream steadily comes to life.
  — Brian McCollum, Detroit Free Press, 10 Oct. 2021
• There are two main wellsprings the Covid denialism movement drew from.
  — Kate Knibbs, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• If you, too, want to dye your hair a rainbow hue like Duff, there's a wellspring of amazing at-home hair-color kits on the market to choose from.
  — Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 12 Apr. 2020
• Bell and Platt, in particular, are a wellspring of zingy one-liners.
  — Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Nov. 2022
• Some TikTok users have garnered thousands and thousands of likes, and a wellspring of comments.
  — Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 23 July 2019
• All those people have become part of an ever-growing wellspring of support over the years.
  — Frederick N. Rasmussen, baltimoresun.com, 9 Feb. 2022
• This is a way to keep some of its treasures on view and to forthrightly acknowledge Africa itself as the wellspring of human culture.
  — New York Times, 6 Jan. 2022
• The Trail Dog medical kit is designed to be a lightweight, easy-to-stow wellspring of dressings and bandages to soothe injured paws.
  — Emily Pennington, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2022
• There, the two talked about the joyful nitty-gritty of not only poetry, but the poets' wellspring, life.
  — Scott Hocker, theweek, 16 Apr. 2024
• That country, where these paintings were exhibited in 2018, also seems to be the wellspring of the artist’s imagery.
  — Washington Post, 28 May 2021
• Albanese cites the story as a wellspring of his empathy for others.
  — Michael E. Miller, Washington Post, 22 May 2022
• Some aid helped some people, but there’s no reason that should translate into a wellspring of support for the party.
  — Daniel Henninger, WSJ, 27 Apr. 2022
• Much has already been said about the sensory wonders of Luca Guadagnino’s wellspring of a movie.
  — Washington Post, 14 Dec. 2017
• Another is how her turbulent youth has served as a wellspring for much of her writing.
  — New York Times, 5 Oct. 2021
• Some members of the Chicago School, the wellspring of modern antitrust theory, agree.
  — Paula Dwyer, Bloomberg.com, 20 July 2017
• The military intervened because Kemalism, its guiding ideology and the wellspring of its alleged power, did not make sense to most people.
  — Steven A. Cook, Foreign Affairs, 19 July 2016
• So the sense of exhilaration over the sudden opening of new possibilities for activity, and the abrupt appearance of new wellsprings of energy might have been somewhat muted.
  — Martin Weil, Washington Post, 28 June 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024