sills

plural of sill

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Noun
  • The students helped free a man in the town of Caraballeda who was pinned under the beams of a collapsed restaurant.
    Minyvonne Burke, NBC news, 25 June 2026
  • Travis Kelce beams from ear to ear with his Raising Cane's Box Combo during his Tight End University event in Nashville on June 23.
    Brendan Le, PEOPLE, 25 June 2026
Noun
  • The soldiers, according to witnesses, instead triaged themselves with makeshift bandages, braces and tourniquets.
    Michael Kaplan, CBS News, 24 June 2026
  • The new ones appear reassuringly sturdy, even without the thicket of cross-braces that typically fence off the sidewalk from the street.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 24 June 2026
Noun
  • The hospital's remaining staffers got creative, making beds and crutches out of wood and using clothes instead of gauze for makeshift splints.
    ABC News, ABC News, 26 Apr. 2026
  • Breathability The best plantar fasciitis night splints are as breathable as possible to avoid excess sweating during the night.
    BestReviews, Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • What was left of other buildings were buried under piles of their own debris.
    Osmary Hernández, CNN Money, 27 June 2026
  • Idling trucks, sandbag piles and large metal trailers stationed around a massive cold storage facility that burned for days in Boyle Heights signaled that the work to clean up millions of pounds of spoiled food and burned debris had begun Friday morning.
    Jazmin Alvarado, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2026
Noun
  • In recent years, carriage negotiations have led to temporary channel blackouts between Disney and services such as YouTube TV and DirecTV Stream, highlighting the high stakes of content licensing deals.
    Anthony Thompson, USA Today, 30 June 2026
  • With its high stakes, vivid action and steamy romance, the novel has struck a chord with Yarros's enthusiastic fanbase.
    Janey Wetzel, PEOPLE, 30 June 2026
Noun
  • Drywood termites don’t make colonies underground but live in structural timbers or even furniture and handrails inside a home.
    Arricca Elin SanSone, Southern Living, 25 June 2026
  • In 1880, Queen Victoria gave President Hayes a desk made of timbers from the HMS Resolute, which sits in the Oval Office today.
    New York Times, New York Times, 11 June 2026
Noun
  • Timber was also cut to be sawn into lumber for constructing buildings, wagons, furniture, boxes, barrels, and many other uses.
    Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 21 June 2026
  • Big Red's Appliances experienced damage to portions of its signage and roofing, while sections of the outdoor lumber area at Menards were displaced by the winds, with debris coming to rest near Dave & Buster's.
    David Ferrara, Cincinnati Enquirer, 19 June 2026
Noun
  • Social media sites used for hateful comments Pumphrey made threatening posts on the social media platform YouTube and other social media sites, according to the guilty plea.
    Adam Thompson, CBS News, 30 June 2026
  • Valdez deposited Pinky at a warehouse belonging to the site’s owner, showing him the Facebook posts of Pinky’s removal.
    Ryan Steven Green, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2026
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“Sills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sills. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.

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