Examples of wellspring in a Sentence
The tour guide was a wellspring of information.
the nation's colleges and universities were a wellspring for political activism and unrest
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Perhaps my working life as a critic has conditioned me into such a response; the movies have long been not just my cultural sustenance but also a personal wellspring of sanity.
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2025
There’s a hole in Newsom’s fundraising web: Silicon Valley.
Tech leaders, long a wellspring of Democratic support, have increasingly backed Trump.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 31 Oct. 2025
The first biography of James Schuyler suggests that his tendency to withdraw was both a harbinger of his disabling mood disorder and the wellspring of his shimmering poetry.
—Langdon Hammer, The New York Review of Books, 30 Oct. 2025
And its representatives are talking a big game about making the country a wellspring of world-class AI companies.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
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Justin Chang, New Yorker, 5 Dec. 2025
There’s a hole in Newsom’s fundraising web: Silicon Valley.
Tech leaders, long a wellspring of Democratic support, have increasingly backed Trump.
—Bloomberg, Mercury News, 31 Oct. 2025
The first biography of James Schuyler suggests that his tendency to withdraw was both a harbinger of his disabling mood disorder and the wellspring of his shimmering poetry.
—Langdon Hammer, The New York Review of Books, 30 Oct. 2025
And its representatives are talking a big game about making the country a wellspring of world-class AI companies.
—Phil Wahba, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Wellspring.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wellspring. Accessed 14 Dec. 2025.
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wellspring
noun
well·spring
ˈwel-ˌspriŋ 
1
: a source of continual supply
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