Example Sentences
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sills
Noun
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The fire is spotting ahead of itself in mulch piles and making runs across levees that are in place.—
CA WILDFIRE BOT,
Sacramento Bee,
25 Mar. 2025 -
Now, there are piles of them back at the house.—
Jared Weiss,
The Athletic,
25 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Many were killed instantly by the explosion, fire, falling timbers, shrapnel and searing steam from the boilers, and many by drowning.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
28 Dec. 2024
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From across France, itinerant glassblowers, masons and carpenters — hewers, who squared the timbers, joiners, who fit beams together — converged on Paris.—
Michael Kimmelman,
New York Times,
6 Dec. 2024
Noun
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Built in 1912 by a local lumber magnate and philanthropist, the home had been vacant for a decade and had fallen into disrepair.—
Eileen Finan,
People.com,
7 Aug. 2025
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It was blessed and cursed with a lot of rich resources, starting with timber, mountains covered with lumber which was very valuable, and underneath were rich veins of coal, which fired the Industrial Revolution, which really built this country.—
Fiction Non Fiction
August 7,
Literary Hub,
7 Aug. 2025
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“Sills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sills. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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