windowsill
Americannoun
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windowsills
plural
noun
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Origin of windowsill
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She sat on the windowsill, occasionally going over to peek out through the front door, but the big red flag she had planted advertising the showing wasn’t drawing much attention.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
A pot of native wildflowers on a doorstep or windowsill can act as a small refuelling stop for insects moving through a human-dominated landscape.
From BBC ● Jul. 21, 2026
Tablets on the windowsill gather dust, remnants of an abandoned online school project.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
Iona is perched on a table by a windowsill, stapling albums to the ceiling as decor to liven up the record store she runs — not that the place needs much livening-up, considering Iona’s look.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2026
They flew home from Gehinnom, and in the minutes it took to land back on the windowsill, Clara seemed ready to simply forget the entire incident.
From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny
There is an empty space beneath her windowsills where the radiators used to sit -- removed after the water started freezing and bursting the pipes.
From Barron's ● Feb. 26, 2026
“Everybody we talked to, Republican and Democrat, were glad it was closing,” said Susan Hoekema, a retired attorney who has lived about 3 miles from the plant since 2006—and recalls black soot covering her windowsills.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2025
Ash still clings to the windowsills of the gray home in Altadena, nine months after an inferno ripped the community apart.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2025
Plant pots and fruit baskets sat on broken windowsills, a reminder of the families that until hours earlier had led their lives tucked away behind these walls.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2025
"And don't most cats like to sit on windowsills?"
From "Sleepover Sleuths: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #1" by Carolyn Keene
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