How to Use fountain pen in a Sentence

fountain pen

noun
  • Plus there were many materials fountain pens couldn't write on at all.
    New Atlas, 29 Oct. 2025
  • However, with a nib or fountain pen, the ink flows out under gravity or, in more elaborate fountain pens, the force of a piston.
    New Atlas, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Fancy metallic pens or fountain pens can sometimes cause issues with airport security.
    Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Fancy metallic pens or fountain pens can sometimes cause issues with airport security.
    Iona Brannon, Travel + Leisure, 15 Dec. 2025
  • Drawing implements can be held either vertically, or at a 45-degree angle, which is more suitable for things like fountain pens.
    Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 21 Aug. 2020
  • Historical uses include fountain pen tips and phonograph needle points, where hardness and wear resistance were essential.
    Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The collection includes six color variations, fountain pen and rollerball, limited to 76 pieces.
    Nancy Olson, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
  • A couple of hundred years ago, pens with steel nibs were introduced, and in the 19th century, fountain pens were invented that could hold a reservoir of ink in a rubber bladder in the barrel.
    New Atlas, 29 Oct. 2025
  • But these pens all had very serious limitations, and fountain pens were also so expensive they were often given as presents to mark important occasions like school graduations.
    New Atlas, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Basic, nonmetal ballpoint or gel pens with blue or black ink are best because fountain pens and rollerballs can leak due to cabin pressure, and travelers who fill out forms in unconventional ink colors may be asked to redo them.
    Deirdre Bardolf, FOXNews.com, 20 Dec. 2025
  • The French luxury brand’s high jewelry studio unfurled this idea of navigating one’s own metaphorical trials across 11 chapters and a total of 110 pieces, which included for the first time a fountain pen.
    Lily Templeton, Footwear News, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Vautin has created a true stationery smorgasbord, stuffed with creamy notebooks, wax seals, fountain pens and inks, wee porcelain bowls, mini-colored-pencil sets, gift wrap, highlighter pens, Hobonichi planners, a bounty of illustrated stickers, and washi-tape rolls by the dozen.
    Dan Stahl, New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2026
  • In collaboration with the whimsical—yet ever precise—Academy Award–winning director Wes Anderson, Montblanc is relaunching a fountain pen with the same set of values.
    Air Mail, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Air Mail and Montblanc created the prize in honor of the author who died in 2018, who championed New Journalism and favored the Montblanc Meisterstück fountain pen.
    Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Montblanc In collaboration with the whimsical—yet ever precise—Academy Award–winning director Wes Anderson, Montblanc is relaunching a fountain pen with the same set of values.
    Air Mail, 17 Jan. 2026

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