fountains 1 of 2

plural of fountain

fountains

2 of 2

verb

present tense third-person singular of fountain

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of fountains
Noun
On land, a volcanic eruption is dramatic—columns of ash, fountains of lava, a complete remaking of the terrain. Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 31 July 2026 And the animals have to stay away from fountains and off the escalators. Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 31 July 2026 Also, immerse yourself in daily Detroit life at Grand Circus Park just across the street, where fountains, gardens, and a dog park in the shadow of the Tigers’ stadium draw locals. Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 31 July 2026 As urban areas grew in Colorado, more ponds and lakes provided unfrozen water, some aided by fountains. Mark Vrtiska, The Conversation, 30 July 2026 Across a fenced, xeriscaped courtyard with fountains is the two-bedroom main home, which has an open living area and a kitchen with a granite peninsula and sliders to the back. The Week Us, TheWeek, 27 July 2026 Its famous holiday lights won’t be on display during the first half of the season, but the fountains and public art still give the district plenty of visual appeal. Taylor Haught, Kansas City Star, 24 July 2026 And teach kids not to drink from the pool or treat splash-pad spouts like drinking fountains. Angela Haupt, Time, 20 July 2026 People become infected by breathing in tiny droplets of contaminated water, commonly from sources such as cooling towers, hot tubs or decorative fountains. Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 19 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for fountains
Noun
  • El Niño and La Niña are the biggest sources of seasonal climate predictability.
    Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026
  • The current outbreak has previously been linked to iceberg lettuce from Taylor Farms de Mexico, but officials haven’t ruled out additional sources of the infection.
    Adam Kovac, Scientific American, 3 Aug. 2026
Verb
  • Trish coined the nickname, which is funny because Cannon never spouts off.
    E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 17 Dec. 2025
  • Though the dream stalker is genuinely terrifying in the 1984 original, his cultural ubiquity grew as the character became less of a boogeyman than a kind of homicidal jester, one who spouts groan-worthy one-liners before spilling your guts.
    Randall Colburn, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Egypt, one of the word’s cradles of civilization, is also a vibrant, modern country.
    Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
  • This 10-pack of plastic melon cradles was a lifesaver last year once my pumpkins started maturing late July.
    Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 June 2026
Verb
  • Clarkson gushes while the pair — both shedding tears — embrace.
    Lydia Price, PEOPLE, 29 July 2026
  • Trump has made clear his disdain for NATO, his affection for Putin, gushes over autocrats, and withholds military support for Ukraine.
    Arthur House, Hartford Courant, 15 June 2026
Noun
  • Johnson has roughly 12 wells across his ranch, which pump between three and seven gallons a minute.
    ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026
  • However, small growers often have shallower wells that are more vulnerable to going dry when water levels drop.
    Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026
Verb
  • Blood spurts against the window.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Eichenprozessionsspinner love warm, dry, and sunny springs, and the spring of 2026 was the sunniest in Berlin’s history.
    Ben Crair, New Yorker, 31 July 2026
  • Items including scissors, light bulbs, raw eggs, rolls of tape, wooden blocks, springs, foam earplugs, jacks, tetrahedrons, and shock absorbers can all be picked up without custom programming, reports Techeblog.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 29 July 2026
Verb
  • What could be a stock campus ice-queen role is subverted throughout the season, through the empathy for the character that courses through her performance.
    Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 27 July 2026
  • The same love of equality and freedom that courses through the Declaration motivated her white great-grandmother to campaign for suffrage and her African American grandfather to found a chapter of the NAACP in the Jim Crow South.
    Michael Kazin, The Atlantic, 3 June 2026

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