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sill

noun as in ledge

noun as in threshold

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Example Sentences

I walked slowly back into my study, which faces Washington Square, and leaned on the window sill.

Tessie leaned back on the open window-sill and began very seriously.

We stood in the open doors with one foot resting on the sill and an elbow cocked on the roof, looking cool.

Another journalist begged him to do a sill walk live on stage then and there, but he demurred.

In February 1909, at age 79, he toppled drunk from his saddle at Fort Sill, Okla.

Robert went over and seated himself on the broad sill of one of the dormer windows.

They stood outside the window and the cook passed them their coffee and a roll, which they drank and ate from the window-sill.

Her soft murmuring voice has stolen into his brain; he hears it in the drip, drip of the rain on the sill outside.

One long and wearisome evening, as we sat on the drawing-room window-sill kicking our heels, Peter came in and found us.

She smoothed out each finger and thumb before she spoke, and laid them on the window-sill.

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On this page you'll find 138 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to sill, such as: girder, joist, piling, pillar, plank, and pole.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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