Example Sentences

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He now works at a small fintech company based in Boulder called Tilled, which aims to pay between the minimum and middle of the market range for every position.

From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2022

Tilled soil is less able to hold water, causing nutrients and other particles to run off into rivers, lakes and the sea.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 12, 2021

Far off a peopled land of Mars lies midst its mighty plain, Tilled of the Thracians; there whilom did fierce Lycurgus reign.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William

To thee the ancient Deep Revealed his pleasant, undiscovered lands; From mines where jewels sleep, Tilled plain and vine-clad steep, Earth's richest spoil was offered to thy hands.

From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry

Tilled fields showed here and there, no larger in appearance than so many outspread handkerchiefs.

From The Certain Hour by Cabell, James Branch