Example Sentences

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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

“We are tilling that hard soil now — that is, reaching out to people who could potentially give significant amounts of dollars.”

From Salon • Sep. 23, 2012

More interesting, they are tilling an old-fashioned garden of conservative tastes.

From New York Times • Sep. 18, 2010

This summer 10,000,000 people are tilling 2,500,000 acres of such gardens in a desperate race with hunger.

From Time Magazine Archive

When we are tilling the ground we shall be making them soft for our slumber.

From Émile or, Concerning Education; Extracts by Steeg, Jules