fountainhead

Example Sentences

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Though he balked his first fiddle contest, he kept trying, even joining Monroe, the bluegrass fountainhead, onstage at age 9.

From New York Times • Feb. 28, 2023

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

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

It would mean acknowledging that Aryans or their Vedic culture were not the singular fountainhead of Indian civilisation and that its earliest sources lay elsewhere.

From BBC • Dec. 30, 2018

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