till
preposition
up to the time of; until.
Example Sentences
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There is plenty of economic land waiting to be tilled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
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
Lark said prairies and grasslands are being converted to acres of corn that have to be tilled and have their soil disrupted on an annual basis.
From Salon ● Apr. 15, 2023
He had emptied the vessel which life had tilled for him and found the emptying meaningless.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
