sills

plural of sill

Example Sentences

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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
  • In the executive order formalizing Trump’s new tariffs, including baseline 10% tariffs for almost all countries, exemptions were broadly defined as products in the pharmaceutical, semiconductor, lumber, copper, critical minerals and energy sectors.
    Robert Faturechi, ProPublica, 22 Apr. 2025
  • This includes commodities like lumber, oil, fertilizers, farming equipment, tires and food products.
    Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 22 Apr. 2025
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“Sills.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sills. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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