Sentence examples for or fount from inspiring English sources

The term font, or fount, goes back as far as the 15th century.

One day it may also provide a cheap source of protein for humans (it's already eaten as a vegetable in parts of Asia) or a cheap fount of biofuel that powers cars while filtering carbon dioxide from the air.

Israel Zangwill wrote of a "scholar unafraid to follow thought to any sea or back to any fount".

When he grew up, he knew, of course, there was no such person, but as he rose to the top of the Israeli navy and later Shin Bet, he realised that there was no fount of wisdom or decency to be found at the top of the Israeli state either: just politicians and officials making questionable decisions on the hoof.

Luther Emmett Holt, a parenting expert from the early twentieth century, encouraged mothers to keep detailed records of their children's progress, pioneering "the notion of child-rearing as a project, a course in which a mother might get an A or an F, which has been a primary fount of parental anxiety ever since".

Thus Holt not only threw his weight behind bottle-feeding; he pioneered the notion of child-rearing as a project, a course in which a mother might get an A or an F, which has been a primary fount of parental anxiety ever since.

Or do we turn to the Internet, that fount of all solace, and find Lepin.

She wasn't a fount of invention, like Schiaparelli; a technical innovator, like Fortuny or Vionnet; or an impresario, like Poiret, although she did design memorable costumes for Cocteau, Diaghilev, and Jean Renoir.

"Head Case" is a new comedy with a relatively languorous pace and no laugh track — the kind of show that, like Larry David's or Ricky Gervais's, wants to remind you what a fount of abasement daily existence actually is.

It is not making any special effort to churn out body plans different enough to be called phyla or to generate a lineage destined to be the fount of a new order.

Many people see it as a fount of endless intellectual property wars between tech firms, or fuel for thuggish, "patent trolls," ready to exploit the system's protections for cash.