sill

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Recent Examples of sill In the children’s playroom at Chelsea and Van’s home stands a 3-foot-tall statue of Yoda from Star Wars, a castle by the window sill and colorful bean bag pillows. Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 13 Feb. 2025 Up front, the grille is blacked out and there’s a new splitter, there are new sills along the side, and, in the back, the bumper and diffuser have been reworked. Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 30 Apr. 2025 However, Boyett says the sill wears down over time, leading the Corps to rebuild the sill in the fall of 2024 to prevent another water scare in New Orleans. Kati Weis, CBS News, 28 Apr. 2025 Upstairs, a mid-chiseled wooden boar and horse are left unfinished in Joel's workspace, a guitar leans against the bedroom window sill, and a copy of Idiot's Guide to Space lies half read on the nightstand. EW.com, 21 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sill
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Noun
  • Packed in between curved wooden beams, translucent honeyed yellow square panels filter the weak sunlight into a more inviting summer afternoon hue.
    Leah Dolan, CNN Money, 5 June 2025
  • Let There Be Light – Students explored the properties of light: how a light bulb contains a rainbow of colors, what happens when a beam of laser light is trapped in water, and more.
    Larry D. Urish, Oc Register, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • Defaulted Student Loan Borrowers Are Not Out Of The Woods While the announcement may be welcome news for the nearly half a million federal student loan borrowers who receive Social Security benefits, borrowers are not out of the woods.
    Adam S. Minsky, Forbes.com, 3 June 2025
  • Officials later reopened the highway after the zebra disappeared into the woods.
    Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 3 June 2025
Noun
  • After undergoing season-ending surgery April 18 to repair his flexor tendon and ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) with an internal brace procedure, this second recovery period has been much smoother for Steele.
    Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 28 May 2025
  • Elster wants viewers to get into her head, literally, with a presentation of enlarged photographs of her mouth and models of her teeth after deciding recently to have braces, which is typical for children between the ages of 9 and 14.
    Natasha Gural, Forbes.com, 22 May 2025
Noun
  • Imagine spending $3,000 on Nvidia’s latest GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card only to unbox a pile of backpacks instead.
    Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 30 May 2025
  • And another with Putin’s head on top of a pile of poop.
    Laura Kelly, The Hill, 29 May 2025
Noun
  • Crucially, the muscles of stags that had been hunted to death contained higher levels of lactic acid, while deer from a slaughterhouse who had their limbs immobilized in a splint before their death had lower levels, suggesting that the acid was generated by physical exertion.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Rafaela Pimenta is wearing a beige splint over her left wrist.
    Charlotte Harpur, New York Times, 12 May 2025
Noun
  • The article also said that Savvy holds stakes in Scopely.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2025
  • The group argues the case places the rights of AR-style weapons at stake, a key issue the high court punted on with its rejection of the petition regarding Maryland’s assault weapons ban.
    Jack Birle, The Washington Examiner, 8 June 2025
Noun
  • That was when a player saw a live one in the locker room, then at the old Miami Arena, and took care of it with his stick.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 4 June 2025
  • But a selfie stick is a great choice for those who want the perfect composition and framing.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2025
Noun
  • Teodoro, who has strongly echoed Marcos' criticisms of China's increasingly assertive actions in the South China Sea, will remain in his post, Executive Secretary Lucas Bersamin told a news conference.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 May 2025
  • Facebook collects a wide range of data from you, including your profile information, posts, photos, comments, likes, friends list, location data, search history and interactions with ads and pages.
    Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 30 May 2025

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“Sill.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sill. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.

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