till
preposition
up to the time of; until.
were tilling
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past progressiveof till.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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In 1956, President Ngo Dinh Diem finally pushed through a law that granted tenant farmers the right to buy plots they were tilling.
From Time Magazine Archive
There is exquisite humour in the following noodle-story: Two brothers were tilling the ground together.
From The Book of Noodles Stories of Simpletons; or, Fools and Their Follies by William Alexander Clouston
The people were tilling it hundreds of years before we began tilling ours.
From My Year of the War Including an Account of Experiences with the Troops in France and the Record of a Visit to the Grand Fleet Which is Here Given for the First Time in its Complete Form by Frederick Palmer
All about it, meadows were tilling, and the whole landscape breathed an air of well-established age, amid the lustiness of youth.
From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Percival Lowell
And when he came to Bourne, all men were tilling in peace.
From Hereward, the Last of the English by Charles Kingsley
