till
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Just wait till you see the industrial sandwich factory where Bernie works.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 18, 2026
"We were looking to freeze, but actually the advice was we don't need to freeze yet so we can probably wait till after the wedding," said Jones.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2026
But I didn’t know that till that terrible day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
"It rained all night, but we stayed put till the choppers came for us," he added.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
Then every night after dinner I’d go and lie down in the orchard till I got called to come in.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
A fish and chip shop owner says he is installing self-service tills to protect staff from customers with "abrupt" questions about price rises.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
Thousands of manually collected prices will now be replaced by millions of prices collected automatically from supermarket tills.
From BBC ● Mar. 16, 2026
Though recently retired, he refuses to give up his peshmerga uniform as he tills his small plot of land.
From Barron's ● Mar. 7, 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
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
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
“The hope is that the kids will learn to respect nature and the environment,” Kim said, inspecting the newly tilled dirt where corn and sweet potatoes will be planted.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2023
As more land at home has been tilled to grow corn for ethanol, commodity prices have gone up worldwide.
From Salon ● May 6, 2023
No Gribleys tilled the soil in those days.
From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
In Middle Tennessee, tilling dirt was her role in fighting the Germans and Japanese.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
Q: In The Blue Plate, you visited a Colorado farm where the farmers have eliminated things like mechanically tilling the soil or leaving land fallow, both of which degrade soil.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2024
So, instead of tilling to loosen soil or digging to add amendments, lay needed organic amendments on top where worms and rain can help them percolate down.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2024
If fields are flooded, that can hamper productivity and slow down planting or ploughing and tilling.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2023
He could feel the rumble of the craft’s engines tilling the air but couldn’t make out the silver skin, the sweeping ribs, the finned tail.
From "Unbroken" by Laura Hillenbrand
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