How to Use fount in a Sentence

fount

noun
  • Who weren’t exactly a fount of fun facts.
    — Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 25 May 2026
  • Iger proved to be a fount of knowledge about the company’s founder.
    — Cynthia Littleton, Variety, 6 Nov. 2025
  • Become your own source, your own resource, the fount of your own balance and stability.
    — Magi Helena, Dallas Morning News, 25 Feb. 2026
  • Lewis, a fount of geniality, is one of many attendees who are interviewed for the film.
    — Anthony Lan, The New Yorker, 25 June 2021
  • Without his father around for the past month, DeRozan has had to look to others as a fount of strength and comfort.
    — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 26 Mar. 2021
  • And of course, the all-knowing, all-oversharing fount of social media, which demands its own form of minute analysis.
    — New York Times, 27 Dec. 2021
  • Agatha Christie is a category unto herself, the grand dame, the fount from which so much mystery writing springs.
    — Robert Lloyd, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2022
  • But the important thing to remember is that now, there is one less fount of hateful conspiracy theories on air.
    — Tori Otten, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Park, hitherto a fount of articulate thoughts, is suddenly coy.
    — Hannah Abraham, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
  • And that, too, makes perfect sense within the world this film creates—as does its suggestion that Oscar Wilde is the fount of glam rock.
    — Kevin Dettmar, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2021
  • It's widely regarded as a success and has served as a fount of expertise for any city looking into a similar program.
    — Peter Nickeas, CNN, 4 June 2021
  • There is something incredibly soothing about being swept up, night after night, in its fount of information.
    — New York Times, 5 May 2021
  • Trending Then there’s Kathy Schroeder, an unrepentant survivor who proves to be a one-woman fount of cringe.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 22 Mar. 2023
  • That could have meant putting up over $30 billion of his own cash––the most likely fount, of course, was selling and margining Tesla shares and vested options.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 13 May 2022
  • Here, the untrammeled imagination presents itself not as a fount of invention but an instrument of oppression.
    — James Campbell, WSJ, 19 Mar. 2021
  • What distinguishes modern wellness, aside from its expansiveness, is its relentless focus on the self as the fount of all improvement.
    — Rachel Syme, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
  • The South Bronx was also a fount of artistic fecundity, where poets, musicians, artists, and dancers created hip-hop.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025
  • Matty, as he was known to friends at home and across the country, was a walking fount of music knowledge, a guy who could summon obscure names, credits and connections at a moment’s notice.
    — Brian McCollum, Freep.com, 18 June 2026
  • Early, as the family’s dented nepo baby, is a peculiar fount of profane insight, twisted but touchingly damaged.
    — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Once a marvel of logistics that hummed with scheduling rigor and pricing predictability, the fount of goods has slowed to a trickle as key supply links have broken down in recent months.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2021
  • Walt Whitman, one of Rorty’s heroes, read Emerson, the fount of American pragmatism, and was inspired.
    — Mark Edmundson, Harper’s Magazine , 12 Dec. 2022
  • Most notably the creation of Neighborhood Councils which, despite their own flaws, remain founts of formidable pressure.
    — Gary Baum, HollywoodReporter, 8 June 2026
  • Alberto is a classic Huck Finn type, a freckled swashbuckler and cheerful fount of misinformation.
    — Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 18 June 2021
  • Parameswaran coaxes the graceful, elegant best out of the strings, producing in effect a fount of sunny lyricism that continually yields new, welcoming vistas.
    — Zachary Lewis, cleveland, 4 June 2021
  • Little Death wears a giant HVAC vent on their head instead of a mask, there are ludicrous founts of blood that would be more at home in a Troma film.
    — Richard Lawson, HollywoodReporter, 13 May 2026
  • The very idea of the speaker as the fount of political action, inspiring ordinary people to act, stems from this liberal historical imagination.
    — Priya Satia, The New Republic, 20 May 2022
  • Since then, Ruta, 21, and Juico, 22, have built a loyal social media audience on the back of a never-ending fount of theories.
    — Amos Barshad, Rolling Stone, 15 Feb. 2022
  • In doing so, the tabloid has become an improbable fount of accountability in a political era characterized by impasse, fear, and an ad-nauseam passing of the buck.
    — Paula Mejía, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026
  • The question is whether the government can reclaim its stature as a fount of scientific innovation, as Public Citizen advocates.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2021
  • There were also tensions observed between the traditional concept of the manager as the fount of all knowledge, as few managers had any real expertise in operating in the new remote environment.
    — Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023

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