Example Sentences

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He added the retailer was increasingly using automation and other technology, such as self-scanning lockers for customers to return items instead of having staff on tills.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

She starves herself for her cause, crosses oceans and tills land to create the utopia that she believes is possible.

From Salon • Dec. 27, 2025

His family tills 3,400 acres of soybeans, corn and other crops.

From Barron's • Oct. 13, 2025

A tractor tills farmland in Cantua Creek, near the site where a massive solar and battery project is planned.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 25, 2025

A poor farmer who tills the nuns’ field, his three hollow-eyed children, and a guest, a traveling scholar, round out the company.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein