windowsill
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Tablets on the windowsill gather dust, remnants of an abandoned online school project.
From Barron's ● Mar. 3, 2026
For a punchier pasta, try al limone: a dish that’s all zip and silk, bright as spring sunlight on a windowsill.
From Salon ● Dec. 18, 2025
Rocio Arrieta sat in a Terminal 3 windowsill with her luggage during a multihour layover from Costa Rica to Australia.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 24, 2024
Three months later, they were spotted on a windowsill in the winter by ecologist Daisy Cadet and her mother Ashleigh in what scientists have described as an "improbable event" that "defies rational explanation".
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2024
“We could dust the windowsill for fingerprints!” said Kojo.
From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein
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
There are several chessboards with missing pieces, and pieces without boards of their own lined up on windowsills and bookshelves.
From "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern
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