sills

1. Pots of flowers on window sills add yet more colour to the floral paintings and patterns that cover beams and eaves.

2. It had been revealed just last month that Sills was gravely ill with inoperable lung cancer.

3. As the water started to rise in the classroom, some students climbed on to the window sills.

4. Jia said only three children and a teacher survived in that classroom, as they were standing on the window sills.

5. The houses with engraved bluestone sills at the gates belonged to families of officials or business persons from the old days.

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