Example Sentences

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"People say, 'Oh, it'll get tilled back into the soil,' but that doesn't account for the resources wasted in the process — pesticides, labor, energy — all of it has environmental costs."

From Salon • Jan. 28, 2025

They turned up around Halloween, as a roaring storm gripped the wetlands of Northern Ireland and tilled its ground: human bones, sticking up from the tea-colored water in Bellaghy bog, halfway between Derry and Belfast.

From New York Times • Feb. 29, 2024

In Scandinavia and parts of Northern Europe, these mobile cattle herders took just a few centuries to largely replace the sedentary farmers who had tilled the soil with stone tools for millennia.

From Science Magazine • Jan. 10, 2024

Have you ever noticed that meadows and forests grow merrily without being tilled, amended or fertilized?

From Seattle Times • Apr. 28, 2023

“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