till
preposition
up to the time of; until.
has tilled
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present perfectof till (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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McCulloch grants that traditional writing has tilled these fields before, and she does not deny that relatively old-school techniques—vocabulary, syntax—can load sentences with the exquisite inflections of conversation.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 26, 2019
“Since time before time our family has tilled this field,” he tells me proudly and many times over.
From "Beast Rider" by Tony Johnston & María Elena Fontanot de Rhoads
You cannot understand that the root of Eli Tregarthen's life goes down into the soil he has tilled from childhood as his parents tilled it.
From Major Vigoureux by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Every gardener has tilled the soil, gone out the next morning, and noticed that his or her compacted footprints were moist while the rest of the earth was dry and fluffy.
From Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway by Steve Solomon
Excesses and excrescences must not be carelessly dealt with, for they mark the fertility of a soil that raises rank weeds because no gardener has tilled it.
From The Negro Problem by Timothy Thomas Fortune
