have been tilling
- present perfect progressive of till.
Example Sentences
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Media veterans know that deeper coverage takes time and often comes from reporters who have been tilling beats for years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2023
My family never had an animal menace like this, said British Farmer Benjamin Banham, whose forebears have been tilling the soil near Great Yarmouth for 500 years.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are so many different races who for centuries have been tilling that brave soil side by side, that it is the soil which unites them, the soil which is their love.
From Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Cannan, Gilbert
