Example Sentences

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As they spoke beneath a tent, water gushed into the pond behind them, creating a fountain-like upwelling in the wind-rippled surface.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 29, 2023

The fountain-like circle-clump that opens the Wheeldon also opens the Peck and appears in the Pires.

From New York Times • May 5, 2023

A fountain-like form in the central rotunda, “me + you” by Suchi Reddy, solicits thoughts on the future from visitors and translates them into one-of-a-kind color and light patterns.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2021

Leaping up out of a jar in an arc before falling to the floor, the fountain-like motion of a chain of beads has puzzled millions around the world with its apparently gravity-defying behavior.

From Scientific American • Jan. 15, 2014

It is this unique and unmistakable character of the lark's song, and its fountain-like sparkle and copiousness, that are the main sources of its charm.

From The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton by Burroughs, John