How to use sill in a sentence

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• You should have used hardwood for this window sill instead of this junk.From the entry hardwood
• The framers toed the irregular pieces into the sill.From the entry toe
• Sill waved for an armored vehicle to come up from the rear.2022, Percival Everett, Dr. No, Influx Press (2023), page 264. From the entry APC
• They are often deep and narrow with a sill in the mouth.2019, J. N. Moum, W. D. Smyth, “Upper Ocean Mixing”, in J. Kirk Cochran, Henry J. Bokuniewicz, Patricia L. Yager, editors, Encyclopedia of…. From the entry fjord
• She ducked back inside and a kneesock-clad leg appeared over the sill.2011, Becky A. Bartness, How to Represent a Ghost, page 335. From the entry kneesock
• The animal fell backward, its talons in a deathlock on the sill of the empty window frame.2010, S.M. Stirling, The Sky People, →ISBN. From the entry deathlock
• "Ah, he's a funny bird," said Phaedra, throwing a leg over the sill.2006, Jeff Fields, Terry Kay, A cry of angels. From the entry bird
• Sill with the utmost tact, "is not licensed to hairdress or manicure pets.1971, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jump bad: a new Chicago anthology, page 71. From the entry hairdress
• Door chowkats shall be with or without wooden sills as ordered.1963, Tarjit Singh, Practical Book on Sessional and Project Examinations, Specially for Civil Engineering Students. From the entry chowkat
• The poor sill hasn't even proper dirt support at the corners.1926 June, “Killing the Golden Goose”, in Building Age and National Builder, volume 48. From the entry skin job
• A wise tabby, a blinking sphinx, watched from her warm sill.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry tabby
• There are two center and two side sills, all four being fish-belly girders.1905 June 20, “Railroad News. […]”, in The Topeka State Journal, last edition, Topeka, Kan., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 3, column 4. From the entry fish-belly girder
• Only now Mariam saw a basket on the sill.2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 59. From the entry tuberose
• Tshidi's doll stands on the window sill, heavy and solid.2006, Sarah Nuttall, African and Diaspora Aesthetics, page 172. From the entry undercloth
• Small bodies of mafic to ultramafic rocks occur as boudins or sills up to 7 km long within the gneiss.1994, A. Thomas, Nicholas Culshaw, Kenneth L. Currie, Geological Survey of Canada, Geology of the Lac Ghyvelde-Lac Long Area, Labrador and…. From the entry boudin
• Where a sill has been provided, the number of hold fasts in the chowkat shall be reduced by two.1963, Punjab (India) Public Works Dept, Punjab P. W. D. Specifications, 1963, page 459. From the entry chowkat
• A plant of orpine was often set by a young girl on her window sill on Midsummer Eve.1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 268. From the entry orpine
• The differentiation extent of a melt changes along strike, and the types of sequences described above are observed in different sill intersections.2014, V.V. Ryabov, A. Shevko, M.P. Gora, Trap Magmatism and Ore Formation in the Siberian Noril'sk Region, volume 1, page 96. From the entry trachydolerite
• The canine ran across the room to the open window, put his front paws on the sill and pointed his nose at the sidewalk below.2010, M. S. Mititch, The Spychip Conspiracy, page 189. From the entry canine
• Sills portrayed as a ditsy yet determined young woman, and Marie, the tomboylike heroine raised by a military regiment in Donizetti’s “Fille du Régiment.”2007 July 3, Anthony Tommasini, “Beverly Sills, All-American Diva, Is Dead at 78”, in New York Times. From the entry tomboylike
• Sebastian sat on the window sill.1955, J P Donleavy, The Ginger Man, published 1955 (France), page 275. From the entry pampootie
• There were no such luxuries as clothes-hangers in there, so I carefully laid out my gown and towel on the window sill before running the bath.2021 June 23, Ruth Gibson, “‘Embarrassing ..’”, in Wirral Globe, Wirral, Merseyside, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 10, columns 1–2. From the entry clothes-hanger
• Dragged down in early winter from the top of the garden where they oversummer, they are placed on the front window sills looking sad and forlorn.2013, Alice Taylor, The Gift of a Garden, →ISBN. From the entry oversummer
• Everything seemed contingent on this arrangement: the clowder under the sill, the kindle under the bed, the ventricle next to the sleeping child slowly repairing itself.2008, Carole Maso, edited by Bradford Morrow, Fifty Contemporary Writers, Conjunctions, From Mother & Child. From the entry kindle
• When the fit had spent itself he walked weakly to the window and, lifting the sash, sat in a corner of the embrasure and leaned his elbow upon the sill.1916, James Joyce, chapter 3, in A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. From the entry embrasure

Meaning of sill

1. noun A breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.
2. noun A threshold; horizontal structural member of a building near ground level on a foundation or pilings, or lying on the ground, and bearing the upright portion of a frame; a sill plate.
3. noun A stratum of rock, especially an intrusive layer of igneous rock lying parallel to surrounding strata.

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Questions about sill in a sentence

How do you use sill in a sentence?

Sill is used as a noun and adjective. For example: “She looked out the window resting her elbows on the window sill.”

What is a short sentence with sill?

“the nasal sill”

What does sill mean?

Sill means a breast wall; window breast; horizontal brink which forms the base of a window.