windowsill
Americannoun
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windowsills
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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
He said his mother Muriel Winning died from cancer in July 2023 and he was given ashes by Bush, which he placed on his windowsill.
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
While his fellow students spark to the winds of political change and sexual freedom, he becomes fixated on what a lone geranium, imaginatively monitored on its windowsill, might have to convey if given the chance.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
"There were microphones on the windowsill of my dining room... I was being listened to," Hurley told the court, calling the press intrusion "deeply hurtful".
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
Camilla took an apple from a bowl on the counter and sat in the windowsill, eating it morosely and looking down at the street below.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
In a nation-wide gesture of "light over darkness", the windowsills of countless homes across Australia were lined with candles.
From BBC ● Dec. 21, 2025
“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
And it feels wrong that some of the aftermath is deceptively pretty, like the delicate flurries of white ash accumulating on windowsills like fresh snow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2025
Surprisingly, no one had fallen yet—perhaps because the path to the flag was fairly easy: balconies, windowsills, and trellises covered most of the space.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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