Example Sentences

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“So here today in 2021 that there is not one Black farmer that is tilling his own soil and pulling his plow and disc harrowing the ground is disheartening.”

From Washington Times • Feb. 2, 2021

Without herbicides, the best weed-killing tool is tilling, and that can lead to erosion, nutrient runoff and the disruption of the microbial community that organic farmers work so hard to foster.

From Washington Post • May 14, 2016

Part of the pleasure of farming," he reflected, "is tilling the soil with your own hands and watching the progress of your crops.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Scout farmer may have her chief interest in rearing animals but she should know something about the main business of the farmer which is tilling the soil.

From Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts by Bacon, Josephine Dodge Daskam

He is there where the tiller is tilling the hard ground and where the pathmaker is breaking stones.

From Gitanjali by Tagore, Rabindranath