Example Sentences

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He found the clean-lined water fountain at Reseda Discount Pottery & Fountains, which he calls an “Aladdin’s cave” with hundreds of fountains running at once.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 30, 2026

The singer-songwriter known for founding the band Fountains of Wayne and writing and composing many songs for TV and film was only 52.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2023

Ghislaine Leung's solo exhibition Fountains at Simian, Copenhagen, tests the boundaries of the gallery space.

From BBC • Apr. 27, 2023

Me: Famed author and engineer Arthur C. Clarke, whose novel The Fountains of Paradise chronicles the building of the first space elevator, was asked this question in the early 1990s.

From Scientific American • Nov. 25, 2022

Fountains sprayed water into the air, forming impossible shapes, like flying eagles and galloping horses.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan