windowsill
noun
the sill under a window.
windowsills
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pluralof windowsill.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
Where spiders now spun their webs, geraniums had bloomed red and pink on the windowsills.
From "The Old Willis Place" by Mary Downing Hahn
