Examples of drinking fountain in a Sentence
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Restroom facilities and drinking fountains are unavailable at this time.
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Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2024
No one knows for certain when public facilities like bathrooms and drinking fountains were separated by race.
—Rodney Coates, The Conversation, 20 Feb. 2024
Some are even collapsible to save you space, and more airports have installed water bottle filling stations next to drinking fountains to make carrying your own that much more convenient.
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—Eric Rosen, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2024
Newsom said, before posing for photo ops where drinking fountains had been sealed for more than a year.
—Miriam Pawel, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
On June 9, 1964, for instance, Rev. T.Y. Rogers organized a march with the NAACP to protest segregated drinking fountains and restrooms in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
—Rodney Coates, The Conversation, 20 Feb. 2024
For months, the pain in her feet had prevented the elephant from walking down a small hill to a drinking fountain in her enclosure, forcing her handlers to give her water in buckets and by hose.
—Rachel Nuwer, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
Authorities also encouraged visitors and residents to take advantage of the Italian capital’s distinctive public drinking fountains, hundreds of which are located in the city’s historic center alone.
—Colleen Barry and Jamey Keaten, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2023
And the cast bronze basins of drinking fountains are based on dogwood leaves and blossoms.
—Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
Alex Groth, Journal Sentinel, 8 Mar. 2024
No one knows for certain when public facilities like bathrooms and drinking fountains were separated by race.
—Rodney Coates, The Conversation, 20 Feb. 2024
Some are even collapsible to save you space, and more airports have installed water bottle filling stations next to drinking fountains to make carrying your own that much more convenient.
20.
—Eric Rosen, Travel + Leisure, 22 Mar. 2024
Newsom said, before posing for photo ops where drinking fountains had been sealed for more than a year.
—Miriam Pawel, The Mercury News, 31 Jan. 2024
On June 9, 1964, for instance, Rev. T.Y. Rogers organized a march with the NAACP to protest segregated drinking fountains and restrooms in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
—Rodney Coates, The Conversation, 20 Feb. 2024
For months, the pain in her feet had prevented the elephant from walking down a small hill to a drinking fountain in her enclosure, forcing her handlers to give her water in buckets and by hose.
—Rachel Nuwer, New York Times, 6 Feb. 2024
Authorities also encouraged visitors and residents to take advantage of the Italian capital’s distinctive public drinking fountains, hundreds of which are located in the city’s historic center alone.
—Colleen Barry and Jamey Keaten, Anchorage Daily News, 18 July 2023
And the cast bronze basins of drinking fountains are based on dogwood leaves and blossoms.
—Charlotte Observer, 30 Jan. 2024
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