wishing well

noun

1. a well or pool of water supposed to grant the wish of one who tosses a coin into it.

Example Sentences

His photographs of the Lubber Run Park amphitheater’s “wishing well” — a collection box for donations, he said — show charred wood strewn amid fallen leaves.

From Washington Post

Not that long ago, I went to the wishing well downtown.

From Literature

“The practices that Wynn did were things like meditation on wishing well being for others and imagining taking in their suffering into himself and breathing out light and happiness toward them,” Stanfield said.

From Washington Post

Apparently visitors were using him as a wishing well.

From Washington Post

“That’s just like throwing my money in a wishing well,” she said.

From Seattle Times