Example Sentences

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Like others in neighboring villages, most of the families here have tilled this land for over 100 years.

From New York Times • Oct. 1, 2022

Farmers say they are being unfairly targeted because schools often build campuses on cheaper land outside town, where they have tilled the soil long before students arrived.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 29, 2016

But even more I thought of Edward Albee and the way his plays have tilled the cultural soil for a wider acceptance of the dreamlike reality of this living art form. 

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 17, 2016

With over a hundred-year history in America, Sikhs have tilled farming lands, founded companies, driven cabs, healed patients, served meals, created technologies.

From Salon • Sep. 11, 2012

As noted above they have tilled the same soil for four thousand years.

From Birdseye Views of Far Lands by Nichols, James T. (James Thomas)