fountained

past tense of fountain

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for fountained
Verb
  • Someone spurted hair spray on Tate McRae’s long locks.
    Jane Bua, New Yorker, 14 May 2026
  • Oil prices spurted higher early this week on worries that the war will keep the Strait of Hormuz closed for a long time.
    Stan Choe, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
Verb
  • Despite this, Skilling continues to speak at events across the Chicagoland, posts about local weather on Facebook and even makes occasional appearances on WGN to discuss severe weather events, as some Chicago Reddit users gushed in recent weeks.
    Hannah Hudnall, USA Today, 26 June 2026
  • Meanwhile, George and Claire Kittle gushed some more about Kelce and Swift, according to Page Six.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 24 June 2026
Verb
  • Cleveland baseball fandom has coursed through the family’s blood for generations.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 16 May 2026
  • The thrust of Mann’s speeches is that Germany, after its plunge into evil, must engage in a spiritual reckoning, a new embrace of humanity, the kind that coursed through Goethe’s writing.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 14 May 2026
Verb
  • That’s the prayerful explanation for the nonsense that spouted this week from the leaders of a football conference that hopes to grow up and be the Big Ten someday.
    Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 29 May 2026
  • There are two areas in my garden where fern asparagus has been growing for more than four decades, having first spouted from seeds that had been deposited, no doubt, by birds.
    Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 21 Feb. 2026
Verb
  • Immigrants crowded waiting rooms and spilled into hallways as clerks raced to process around 100 people scheduled for an administrative hearing that morning.
    Itzel Luna, Los Angeles Times, 1 July 2026
  • The Kansas City Royals raced out to a quick lead against the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday night at Kauffman Stadium.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 1 July 2026
Verb
  • She was rushed from her Nashville apartment to Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
    Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026
  • Multiple explosions shook central Kyiv and reverberated across the capital throughout the night as thousands of residents rushed to bomb shelters and underground metro stations.
    Gleb Garanich, USA Today, 2 July 2026
Verb
  • Through the risk of lightning, sticky humidity and a winding line filled with thousands of chanting fans, Argentine fans flooded Bayfront Park with a sea of blue jerseys.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 4 July 2026
  • Social media was flooded with images and footage of guests making the pilgrimage to MSG.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 4 July 2026
Verb
  • With no energy available to warm the planet to these temperatures, the team reasoned that the temperature must be a residual effect of prior warming either from being engulfed by the red giant or during an inward migration.
    Robert Lea, Space.com, 2 July 2026
  • Polls show Democrats are the favorites to retake Congress heading into November, but the party is engulfed at the moment by a fierce debate about its ideologicl direction.
    Phillip M. Bailey, USA Today, 1 July 2026
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“Fountained.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/fountained. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.

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