SILL in a Sentence

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For SILL, below is one of 42 sentences:
Such a glowing morning usually called Scarlett to the window, to lean arms on the broad sill and drink in the scents and sounds of Tara.

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 Meanings and Examples of SILL
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sill
 n.  basis or foundation of a thing; especially, a horizontal piece, as a timber, which forms the lower member of a frame, or supports a structure
Classic Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
1  Such a glowing morning usually called Scarlett to the window, to lean arms on the broad sill and drink in the scents and sounds of Tara.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Scarlett rested her elbows on the window sill and listened, grinning unwillingly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  All the fiends of hell seemed screaming in her ears and her brain swirled with confusion and panic so overpowering she clung to the window sill for support.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
4  As she stood hanging to the sill, a deafening explosion burst on her ears, louder than any cannon she had ever heard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
5  For comfort, he made overtures to the honey- colored cat which lay on the sunny window sill in the front hall.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
6  Wade had never seen him smile like that or look so happy and, encouraged, he leaped from the sill and ran to him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
7  With a passionate jerk she pushed up the window, looked out, the arched fingers of her left hand trembling on the sill, her right hand at her breast.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  It was next day before either of them remembered that in their honeymoon camp they had planned that he should carry her over the sill.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  The moment it was dusk she pulled down the window-shades, all the shades flush with the sill, but beyond them she felt moist fleering eyes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
10  Robert went over and seated himself on the broad sill of one of the dormer windows.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VIII
11  The window frame which prevented anyone from sitting on the outer sill was being forced out by two footmen, who were evidently flurried and intimidated by the directions and shouts of the gentlemen around.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
12  Dolokhov, the bottle of rum still in his hand, jumped onto the window sill.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
13  A thin young lad, an hussar of the Life Guards, who had been losing that evening, climbed on the window sill, leaned over, and looked down.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
14  Placing the bottle on the window sill where he could reach it easily, Dolokhov climbed carefully and slowly through the window and lowered his legs.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
15  Anatole brought two candles and placed them on the window sill, though it was already quite light.
War and Peace 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX
Example Sentence:
1  A cat was basking on the window sill.
2  This extra special "Bon Voyage" comes to you to say hope you sill enjoy your trip in every kind of way.
3  He fell from the window sill and put his shoulder out.
4  There was a dining chair placed in front of the sill, as if it was a desk.