sill

Example Sentences

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There on the sill, the broken pieces fitted carefully together, sat the wooden triangle.

From Literature

“They write words on the sill between them and wipe them off, their palms and feet dark with dust.”

From Los Angeles Times

Christopher clambered up onto the sill and, inch by inch, lifted the window higher.

From Literature

Video footage from inside their Riverside home showed water levels reaching just below the window sill, after the the Six Mile Water River burst its banks.

From BBC

Natalie grabbed the sill of the high window from the outside and pulled herself up—easier now that the water was higher—and saw her mother’s frightened face.

From Literature