till

As a teen, he divided his time between school and driving oxen to till the land.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

“We were young and crazy. We waited till the players came out and kind of talked to them,” said David, who says he once walked with Wilt Chamberlain to his car.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026

Yes, there was Theranos and “fake it till you make it” Elizabeth Holmes.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

To confirm it was Jamal, we made an undercover visit to one of the shops where he was staffing the till, and started a conversation.

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

This news didn’t reach us till almost midnight, and then under dramatic circumstances.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

Captain Andy Robertson once worked on the tills at Marks & Spencer on Sauchiehall Street, while Lawrence Shankland was employed in a Hillington plumbing factory before turning professional.

From BBC ● Jun. 10, 2026

She starves herself for her cause, crosses oceans and tills land to create the utopia that she believes is possible.

From Salon ● Dec. 27, 2025

Now store clerks don't know what to do when their tills are bare and someone needs change in pennies from a cash purchase.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025

His family tills 3,400 acres of soybeans, corn and other crops.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025

The dull green antique coppers spilled from out the tills of their eyesockets onto the stained and rotted coffin floors.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

There is plenty of economic land waiting to be tilled.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026

"People say, 'Oh, it'll get tilled back into the soil,' but that doesn't account for the resources wasted in the process — pesticides, labor, energy — all of it has environmental costs."

From Salon ● Jan. 28, 2025

They turned up around Halloween, as a roaring storm gripped the wetlands of Northern Ireland and tilled its ground: human bones, sticking up from the tea-colored water in Bellaghy bog, halfway between Derry and Belfast.

From New York Times ● Feb. 29, 2024

In Scandinavia and parts of Northern Europe, these mobile cattle herders took just a few centuries to largely replace the sedentary farmers who had tilled the soil with stone tools for millennia.

From Science Magazine ● Jan. 10, 2024

He reminds me of the poor white sharecroppers who tilled Mr. Thompson’s land.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

In Middle Tennessee, tilling dirt was her role in fighting the Germans and Japanese.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026

If fields are flooded, that can hamper productivity and slow down planting or ploughing and tilling.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2023

In the meantime, volunteers with Friends of the Ballona Wetlands are tilling the soil and preparing to put in scores of new trees and plants to help with the environmental restoration.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2023

On any given day, the farmer might do a dozen different things on the land, such as tilling, planting, weeding, harvesting or adding fertilizer.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2023

“So many ignorant lands in need of my knowledge. I will teach them the glories of tilling, irrigation, fertilizing!”

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan