sill

Example Sentences

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

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

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 • Jan. 27, 2026

The Red Sea was initially connected from the north to the Mediterranean through a shallow sill.

From Science Daily • Oct. 8, 2025

“It’s the law,” the not-unkind super replies — though Alex, now 2, can barely sit up, let alone reach the sill.

From New York Times • Apr. 23, 2024

Then she jumped down from the sill, onto the bed, where she wrapped herself into a curl of fur and went back to sleep, a circle of cat upon the old counterpane.

From "American Gods" by Neil Gaiman