sills

plural of sill

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Noun
  • The cats' plates included their water bowls and two piles of food.
    George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
  • In one photo, Kristoff is outside, surrounded by piles of excrement and a plastic doghouse.
    Rachel McRady, People.com, 30 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • Duties on lumber from Canada had already risen to 14.4% this summer after the expiration of a U.S.-Canada agreement on softwood lumber.
    Don Lee, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Kengo Kuma & Associates uses lumber for screens, scaffolds, and panels hung on a steel-frame pavilion.
    Justin Davidson, Curbed, 8 Jan. 2025
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