How to Use till in a Sentence

till

1 of 2 verb

• The farmers are tilling the soil.
• The farmers are out there tilling their fields and planting.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
• This newest work of his is rooted in soil he’s been tilling for some years.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 27 July 2023
• Please don’t think about tilling anything into the soil.
  — oregonlive, 4 June 2023
• Construction can affect the tilling farms need for drainage, while also adding traffic and noise.
  — Jeff Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2023
• The soil will typically not be tilled and will be disturbed as little as possible.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 25 May 2023
• Our ancestors tilled the earth, domesticated the beasts of the land, all in the hopes that one day, centuries hence, their descendants would be able to invent these spicy cheese puffs.
  — Nena Farrell, WIRED, 11 Oct. 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.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• Now that the picking has ended, Barnes will get back on his tractor and begin tilling under the stalks to prepare for a fall planting of cabbage, broccoli and collards.
  — Jim Morrison, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
• Unlike most of southern New Jersey, the Glassboro forest had never been cleared or tilled for agriculture.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
• Soil touched more by hooves than tilling machines held 25% more microbes, 33% more insect diversity and three times the number of grassland birds.
  — Bill Weir, CNN, 3 July 2023
• On a recent Sunday, children rode bicycles on new dirt paths, women tilled soil for gardens and men pulled tarps onto shelters.
  — Jack Nicas Maria Magdalena Arréllaga, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
• Cover crops are a big part of no-till farming but can be a challenge for home gardeners because many need to be tilled in or sprayed with an herbicide to terminate the crop, Chernoh said.
  — oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2023
• Peatlands have long been considered more useful drained, tilled, and planted than kept intact; in few places have people chosen to leave all that rich soil sitting under a stinking swamp.
  — Michelle Nijhuis, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
• Prevention takes the form of simply avoiding plant injury (like root wounds from tilling or transplanting), trimming broken branches with clean and sharp tools, and growing species naturally more resistant to this disease.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2023
• The farmers are tilling the soil.
• The farmers are out there tilling their fields and planting.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
• This newest work of his is rooted in soil he’s been tilling for some years.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 27 July 2023
• Please don’t think about tilling anything into the soil.
  — oregonlive, 4 June 2023
• Construction can affect the tilling farms need for drainage, while also adding traffic and noise.
  — Jeff Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2023
• The soil will typically not be tilled and will be disturbed as little as possible.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 25 May 2023
• Our ancestors tilled the earth, domesticated the beasts of the land, all in the hopes that one day, centuries hence, their descendants would be able to invent these spicy cheese puffs.
  — Nena Farrell, WIRED, 11 Oct. 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.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• Now that the picking has ended, Barnes will get back on his tractor and begin tilling under the stalks to prepare for a fall planting of cabbage, broccoli and collards.
  — Jim Morrison, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
• Unlike most of southern New Jersey, the Glassboro forest had never been cleared or tilled for agriculture.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
• Soil touched more by hooves than tilling machines held 25% more microbes, 33% more insect diversity and three times the number of grassland birds.
  — Bill Weir, CNN, 3 July 2023
• On a recent Sunday, children rode bicycles on new dirt paths, women tilled soil for gardens and men pulled tarps onto shelters.
  — Jack Nicas Maria Magdalena Arréllaga, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2023
• Cover crops are a big part of no-till farming but can be a challenge for home gardeners because many need to be tilled in or sprayed with an herbicide to terminate the crop, Chernoh said.
  — oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2023
• Peatlands have long been considered more useful drained, tilled, and planted than kept intact; in few places have people chosen to leave all that rich soil sitting under a stinking swamp.
  — Michelle Nijhuis, The New York Review of Books, 30 Mar. 2023
• Prevention takes the form of simply avoiding plant injury (like root wounds from tilling or transplanting), trimming broken branches with clean and sharp tools, and growing species naturally more resistant to this disease.
  — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 30 Mar. 2023

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till

2 of 2 noun

• A few minutes passed, and Rachael started running the tickets through the till.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 31 May 2022
• But those damn wastrel Republicans keep putting their hands in the till.
  — Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
• By charging closer to what the market will bear, artists are capturing more of the till.
  — Anne Steele, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2022
• The company rolled out hundreds of such tills earlier this year as part of the effort.
  — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 21 Nov. 2023
• There is a feeling in the country that there are no repercussions for politicians who dip their hands into the till.
  — Aanu Adeoye, Quartz, 30 June 2021
• The quest for some return — any return — has pushed up the prices of those assets that offer the possibility of more than a few basis points in the till.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Dec. 2020
• The Sprouse family farm covers thousands of acres of fertile glacial till, ​​remnants of the last ice age, in northwestern Missouri.
  — Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2024
• Even with Sally stealing from the till, waitressing’s not enough to cover a fugitive lifestyle like this.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2023
• Cash isn’t usually kept in the restaurant overnight, an owner said, and most people pay digitally or with a card, so there’s nothing in the till.
  — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
• One heard tales of staff—the waitresses in dirndl skirts, the most powerful and trusted masseurs—who moved to Maria Wörth for higher wages, or employees being dismissed for having their hands in the till.
  — Janine Di Giovanni, Town & Country, 28 Apr. 2023
• This tells me that so long as there is some cash in the till, there will be robberies but with the rewards from robbing banks and businesses falling so armed robbers, like everyone else, will follow the money.
  — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 26 June 2022
• And then, right around the 60-minute mark, something happens that gives the till-now quite light proceedings an unexpected emotional resonance.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2021
• Lang recalls her children and grandchildren playing and jumping on trampolines in various corners of the greenhouse through the years and frequent customers trusting the arithmetic of a 9-year-old working at the till.
  — Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Oct. 2021
• More appropriate is what legendary Chicago columnist Mike Royko suggested as a motto for his city where public officials often had their hands in the till: Ubi est mea?
  — Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2022
• Never mind how many lawmakers have gotten caught with their hands in the till, including a former Alabama House speaker who is supposed to report to prison this week finally.
  — al, 4 Sep. 2020
• A few minutes passed, and Rachael started running the tickets through the till.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 31 May 2022
• But those damn wastrel Republicans keep putting their hands in the till.
  — Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
• By charging closer to what the market will bear, artists are capturing more of the till.
  — Anne Steele, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2022
• The company rolled out hundreds of such tills earlier this year as part of the effort.
  — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 21 Nov. 2023
• There is a feeling in the country that there are no repercussions for politicians who dip their hands into the till.
  — Aanu Adeoye, Quartz, 30 June 2021
• The quest for some return — any return — has pushed up the prices of those assets that offer the possibility of more than a few basis points in the till.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Dec. 2020
• The Sprouse family farm covers thousands of acres of fertile glacial till, ​​remnants of the last ice age, in northwestern Missouri.
  — Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2024
• Even with Sally stealing from the till, waitressing’s not enough to cover a fugitive lifestyle like this.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2023
• Cash isn’t usually kept in the restaurant overnight, an owner said, and most people pay digitally or with a card, so there’s nothing in the till.
  — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
• One heard tales of staff—the waitresses in dirndl skirts, the most powerful and trusted masseurs—who moved to Maria Wörth for higher wages, or employees being dismissed for having their hands in the till.
  — Janine Di Giovanni, Town & Country, 28 Apr. 2023
• This tells me that so long as there is some cash in the till, there will be robberies but with the rewards from robbing banks and businesses falling so armed robbers, like everyone else, will follow the money.
  — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 26 June 2022
• And then, right around the 60-minute mark, something happens that gives the till-now quite light proceedings an unexpected emotional resonance.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2021
• Lang recalls her children and grandchildren playing and jumping on trampolines in various corners of the greenhouse through the years and frequent customers trusting the arithmetic of a 9-year-old working at the till.
  — Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Oct. 2021
• More appropriate is what legendary Chicago columnist Mike Royko suggested as a motto for his city where public officials often had their hands in the till: Ubi est mea?
  — Margaret Sullivan, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2022
• Never mind how many lawmakers have gotten caught with their hands in the till, including a former Alabama House speaker who is supposed to report to prison this week finally.
  — al, 4 Sep. 2020

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