Example Sentences

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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

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

A tractor tills farmland in Cantua Creek, near the site where a massive solar and battery project is planned.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 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