Sentence examples for on a sill from inspiring English sources

On a side street in Manhattan, boys play stickball, while on a nearby block, a woman sits on a sill and washes a window high above the sidewalk.

After a scramble up a rubble-strewn incline, we rested in a large watchtower, each sitting on a sill of one of the several windows.

It is on a window sill on the Via Garibaldi, not on a sill of the United States pavilion.

His poetry includes Mixed Feelings (1951), A Word Carved on a Sill (1956), Weep Before God (1961), Wildtrack (1965), Letters to Five Artists (1969), and Feng (1975).

"A Play of the Word" - a longish narrative poem, conversational in tone and written in anapaestic tetrameter, traditionally a comic form (think Dr Seuss) - certainly has some lovely images: "Her hands were so delicate delicate things / were careful with them and the length of her arm / was an hour when I saw it at rest on a sill / with a twig in its hand that's in my hand still".

The drag acting on a sill placed in a plane turbulent wall jet is estimated using a dynamic pressure model which is experimentally verified.

When we grow healthy food, we join a community of backyard or corner-of-the-deck or on-a-window-sill farmers that helps reduce the transportation costs of shipping in our food from thousands of miles away.

Although the underlying science that produced a radish 40 days after I planted one on a window sill was also very complex, what made it seem straightforward to me as a child (plant a radish, get a radish) was the simplicity of my own contribution (keep your radish watered and in the sun).

Do this by putting everything to one side like on a windows sill or on the floor.

Consequently the international list of bands and performers on "Crayon Angel," a Sill tribute album, go in hard for strong, simple and transformative musical ideas.

But last Wednesday, in a cold, gray North Atlantic seaway, Goss's worst nightmares were realized when a 45-foot section of the spindly port bow cracked off like an icicle dangling from a sill, on the third day of the boat's maiden trials.