fountainhead

Example Sentences

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The fountainhead of American bohemia, Greenwich Village has always departed from the straight and narrow.

From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2022

Muslims attached to the Gyanvapi mosque said the court-appointed surveyors had mistaken a fountainhead in the water tank as a Hindu idol and motifs were flowers embedded in Persian design.

From Reuters • May 20, 2022

That’s when a theater kid from Compton, Calif., flew some 3,000 miles from home to begin his freshman year at “The Mecca,” what Howard students call the historically Black fountainhead of talent.

From Washington Post • May 11, 2022

Yet bordering countries, as well as some in the wider region, fear a Taliban-led state could pose a potent threat — as an exporter of extremism, or a fountainhead of refugee flight, or both.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 2, 2021

The only fountainhead which had once been near and which had once sung loudly within him, now murmured softly in the distance.

From "Siddhartha" by Hermann Hesse