has been tilling
- present perfect progressive of till (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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Baba has been tilling the fields for a quarter century.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2022
Delaney, who is not neglecting New Hampshire, has been tilling Iowa’s political soil as an announced candidate for more than 475 days and long since exceeded 50 percent name recognition among Democratic Iowans.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2018
The Warren campaign has been tilling the fields for months.
From New York Times ● Nov. 5, 2012
The common ground holding most of these tales together is the Malgudi district, a fictional area of southern India that Narayan has been tilling for the past 50 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
"The senator has been someone who has been tilling the home soil," said Vanderbilt University political scientist John Geer.
From Washington Post
