Example Sentences

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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

While they were burdened and disdained in America, it was the land they had tilled and spilled blood on, the land where they created life and buried their dead.

From The Guardian • Jun. 3, 2015

That includes the removal of 70,000 truckloads of contaminated soil - including from yards where, unaware of the danger years ago, homeowners had tilled vermiculite waste into their gardens.

From Seattle Times • May 24, 2010

Born in a lopsided Missouri log cabin, Mr. Wells had tilled the soil, attended an obscure college.

From Time Magazine Archive

He had emptied the vessel which life had tilled for him and found the emptying meaningless.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright