Example Sentences
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There is plenty of economic land waiting to be tilled.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
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
“The hope is that the kids will learn to respect nature and the environment,” Kim said, inspecting the newly tilled dirt where corn and sweet potatoes will be planted.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2023
The cities were spacious and elegant, the fields well tilled and fertile.
From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman
