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- noun Plural form of
windowsill .
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Examples
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Because of the problem of thieves at night, little lamps filled with oil were kept lit and put in windowsills of the houses.
Keeping the Light On 2005
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Because of the problem of thieves at night, little lamps filled with oil were kept lit and put in windowsills of the houses.
Archive 2005-02-01 2005
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There is a somewhat odd artifact of "swimming" pixels on certain horizontal surfaces such as windowsills, and on the black keys and the pins inside the grand pianos.
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My roommate moved in first, and had decorated the flat with empty vodka bottles all over the windowsills.
Twenty-three-year-olds Shouldn't Be Writing Memoirs (Ch 4) Robert David Moseley 2011
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I use some water from my water bottle, and a towel, and clean the table, then lightly dust off the scanner, several bookshelves, and all the windowsills.
Eliezer Sobel: A Day in the Strife of a Writer Eliezer Sobel 2011
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What to do nowIf you see water pooling on your floors or windowsills or leaking from the ceiling, go outside and make a visual inspection of your roof.
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The guys who were doing the shooting would use the windowsills of the mine office for rifle rests.
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In those days students rotated in and out of seats, sat on the floor and windowsills, or stood in the back, and no education took place for months.
Alan Singer: No Longer Waiting for "Superman" Alan Singer 2010
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Each of the shooters picked a spot at one of the windowsills.
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I use some water from my water bottle, and a towel, and clean the table, then lightly dust off the scanner, several bookshelves, and all the windowsills.
Eliezer Sobel: A Day in the Strife of a Writer Eliezer Sobel 2011
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