windowsill

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Give the plants natural sunlight but doing so on a windowsill is not recommended.

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  • On the windowsill, my score of the Allemande stood, begrimed, bravely withstanding my strung-out glances, surrounded by poignant, desiccated remainders of Vietnamese takeout.
  • Harry sat upon the drawing-room windowsill, his wings pressed against the windows. —  Karen Harbaugh - [Cupid -1] - Cupid's Mistake
  • He sat on the windowsill, his huge shoulders slumped. —  The Lesson of Her Death
  • He looked at the windowsill, his blood from the day before, and saw, tracked into the red, a pigeon's footprint, three front toes, a long back one, the bird landing just as the blood had been freezing. —  AHMM,Jan-Feb2006
  • Ken set a golf ball on the plank that angled up from a table to the windowsill, and it rolled up just like it was supposed to. —  FSF,January2008
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