sills

plural of sill

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for sills
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • As all this unfolds and the U.S. legal system lumbers toward a final verdict, one thing is clear: the White House needs to get a real trade strategy, and fast.
    Ryan Hass, Time, 30 May 2025
  • About 6% of the lumber produced at his facility comes from trees that fell during natural disasters.
    Asher Redd, FOXNews.com, 29 May 2025
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“Sills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sills. Accessed 3 Jun. 2025.

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