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
  • This concept has long been a wellspring of inspiration and contemplation for me.
    WWD, 3 July 2024
  • 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

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