Sentence examples for sill at from inspiring English sources

It was packed for the performance, and Bill and I sat on a window sill at the back.

If their draft exceeds the water depth of the submerged sill at the mouth of the fjord, newly calved bergs may stay trapped for long periods in their fjords of origin.

Its density of 1.02778 causes it to sink to the bottom of the Mediterranean and overflow across the submarine sill at the Strait of Gibraltar, whence it sinks and spreads at a depth of about 1,000 metres (3,300 feet) in the Atlantic.

By John McPhee The Low Sill at Old River Three hundred miles up the Mississippi River from its mouth — many parishes above New Orleans and well north of Baton Rouge — a navigation lock in the Mississippi's right bank allows ships to drop out of the river.

Elevation of the estimated deflation sill, at around 225 m, is almost the same as the altitude of the supposed reservoir of hydrothermal fluids.

The Iceberg Bank, a prominent sill at the fjord exit appears to play an important role for the sedimentation after the retreat of the ice front from the shelf was completed.

By her own account, Ms. Sills at first felt no great itch to play Elizabeth.

Then a co-worker persuaded him — "almost as a joke," he says — to audition for Beverly Sills at the New York City Opera.

Window and door openings are boxed in with horizontal 2 × 4 lumber called headers at the top and sills at the bottom.

Along with Lincoln Center and the Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera presented the thoughtful, free public tribute to Beverly Sills at the Metropolitan Opera House on Sept. 16.

For New Yorkers, it is the latest float of a parade that began in earnest in 1966, when Norman Treigle's Julius Caesar succumbed to the scintillant Cleopatra of Beverly Sills at the New York City Opera.