FOUNTAIN in a Sentence

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65 example sentences for FOUNTAIN, such as:

1. The fountain plays only at weekend.
2. She dabbled her hands in the fountain.
3. Clear water spouted from the fountains.
4. A fountain of water shot from the pipe.
5. A stream cannot rise above its fountain.

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 Meanings and Examples of FOUNTAIN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
fountain
 n.  spring of water issuing from the earth; artificially produced jet or stream of water
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  Miss Farish's heart was a fountain of tender illusions, Miss Stepney's a precise register of facts as manifested in their relation to herself.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 11
2  Hanging lights made emerald caverns in the depths of foliage, and whitened the spray of a fountain falling among lilies.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
3  Selden followed her, and still without speaking they seated themselves on a bench beside the fountain.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 12
4  And still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 1. Loomings.
5  But calm, snow-white, and unvarying; still directing its fountain of feathers to the sky; still beckoning us on from before, the solitary jet would at times be descried.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 51. The Spirit-Spout.
6  You cannot go with your pitcher to this fountain and fill it, and bring it away.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
7  Outside the soft, monotonous splash of a fountain could be heard; the sound penetrated into the room with the heavy odor of jessamine that came through the open windows.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXX
8  Still the clear fountain retained a portion of its charmed influence, but it reflected only the somber gloom that fell from the impending heavens.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 18
9  In the middle of the court, a fountain threw high its silvery water, falling in a never-ceasing spray into a marble basin, fringed with a deep border of fragrant violets.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
10  The water in the fountain, pellucid as crystal, was alive with myriads of gold and silver fishes, twinkling and darting through it like so many living jewels.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
11  Around the fountain ran a walk, paved with a mosaic of pebbles, laid in various fanciful patterns; and this, again, was surrounded by turf, smooth as green velvet, while a carriage-drive enclosed the whole.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
12  It was a beautiful moonlight evening, and he sat watching the rising and falling spray of the fountain, and listening to its murmur.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
13  A stream cannot rise above its fountain.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
14  There were trees, and flower-beds, and evergreens clipped into strange shapes, and a large pool with an old gray fountain in its midst.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
15  But the flower-beds were bare and wintry and the fountain was not playing.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence:
1  Have no doubts because of trouble nor be thou discomtited; for the water of life's fountain springeth from a gloom bed.
2  The fountain plays only at weekend.
3  Never cast dirt into that fountain of which thou hast sometime durnk.
4  A fountain of blood was pouring from his chest.
5  The morning to the mountain the evening to the fountain.
6  The water fountain became an altar, standing on marble pillars and graced by its own fan design.
7  A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight.
8  A group of children are playing in the fountain in the park.
9  Learn and well made, the deeper soil more difficult, if not quickly heart, would see fountain.
10  Any true lover casting a pin into the fountain and gazing into it will see his or her future partner.
11  A fountain of water shot from the pipe.
12  She dabbled her hands in the fountain.
13  How she longed to get out of that dark hall, and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains.
14  The fountains of Rome are famed for their architectural beauty.
15  Clear water spouted from the fountains.