wellspring
Example Sentences
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The everyday tools of the kitchen can be connected to powerful memories and wellsprings of feeling.
It is warm, flat and shallow as a backyard pool — making it more like a supersize petri dish than the wellspring of the Everglades.
From Seattle Times
Lincoln Laboratory, a wellspring of technological innovation funded by the Pentagon, to further his education in computer science.
From New York Times
Because so many people come here so frequently, the cemetery has become a gathering place of sorts, a wellspring of communal and individual grief.
From Los Angeles Times
The ensuing twist seemingly arises from nowhere, blurring the line between intent and spontaneity for a wellspring of kinetic, jagged violence that slyly invites the possibility of more stories to come.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
