sills

plural of sill

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sills
Noun
  • His antlers were 51 inches along the main beams and had a spread of 48½, with six long symmetrical points to a side.
    Robert Merchant, Outdoor Life, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Across the sideline, Joe Flacco sat on the bench near the end of another disaster, staring blankly into the ceiling beams at Ford Field.
    Jason Lloyd, New York Times, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Betty, a quirky Mexican American with adult braces and cute red prescription glasses, often incorporated her culture into her ensembles using bright colors and patterns, like her famous poncho with the city of Guadalajara emblazoned across the front.
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Timm’s smile widened, revealing braces adorned with orange, black and white rubber bands – her personal tribute to monarch migration season.
    Caitlin Looby, jsonline.com, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Otherwise, after running imaging tests, doctors generally recommend treatments like physical therapy and braces, splints, or shoe inserts.
    Angela Haupt, Time, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Shin splints are common among runners, especially those who just ramped up their training, since that can force the tibialis anterior into overdrive.
    Jenny McCoy, SELF, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Last year, Kardashians decorations took a spookier turn, with the reality star’s house being decorated with creepy floating ghosts, witches brooms and piles of pumpkins in shades of traditional orange — plus green, white and hues of brown — and covered in sprawling vines.
    Kirsty Hatcher, PEOPLE, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Hallways were lined with debris and plastic bags while clothing, wall decor and lamps became piles of litter inside apartment units.
    Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Prepping for this influx of shipments, the Port Authority along with its tenants—including the ocean carriers that own stakes and terminals in the port—made investments between 2021 and 2023 that included deepening channels to 50 feet and raising the Bayonne Bridge.
    Sarah Jones, Sourcing Journal, 2 Oct. 2025
  • If Paschal and Heights can stay undefeated, which is a likely scenario, an extremely high stakes Battle of the Bonfire rivalry game to end the regular season could come to fruition.
    Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The houses look German with their mahogany timbers, each window framed by shutters and a little planter of blooming flowers.
    R29 Team, Refinery29, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Shiver me timbers and blow me down.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • The White House later said Trump had signed a proclamation that imposes a 10 percent global tariff on imports of softwood lumber.
    Shane Croucher, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Trump for months has been criticizing America’s northern neighbor for its significant lumber exports to the United States.
    David Goldman, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • From creating social media posts to writing stories to leading search-audience strategy — and a whole lot more — lead digital producer Chris Kuhagen has a huge impact on the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newsroom.
    Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, jsonline.com, 3 Oct. 2025
  • Chris Dreja, a musician, photographer and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member who was a co-founder of the pioneering British rock band the Yardbirds and a co-writer of many of that band’s songs, has died, according to social media posts from his sister-in-law and his former bandmate Jimmy Page.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 2 Oct. 2025
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“Sills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sills. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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