How to Use till in a Sentence

till

1 of 2 verb
  • The farmers are tilling the soil.
  • The rest was tilled into the ground.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
  • Creative soil has to be tilled every once in a while.
    — Peter Bogdanovich, IndieWire, 13 May 2026
  • Tractors pass by, tilling the soil.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 17 Jan. 2026
  • When spring comes, the cover crop can be tilled back into the soil to add nutrients.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Do this during the fall so that by spring, your garden bed will be ready to plant without needing to be tilled.
    — Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 May 2025
  • At no small personal expense, the man tilled a large swath of local soccer soil.
    — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Mar. 2025
  • The 63-year-old lives in the same house his great-grandad helped build, tilling the same fields his father worked.
    — Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The grass and roots can then be raked out after tilling the soil and before planting flowers.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 28 Sep. 2025
  • The grass and roots can then be raked out after tilling the soil and before planting flowers.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The fragrance of dry grass mingled in the air with the dust kicked up by a tractor tilling in the distance.
    — Elena Valeriote, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Prep the planting spot by tilling the soil to a depth of 10 to 12 inches.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 Feb. 2025
  • Prep the planting spot by tilling the soil to a depth of 10 to 12 inches.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Mar. 2026
  • Rework old gardens by tilling in lots of organic matter with sandy soils.
    — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2025
  • But as a foundation, the first season tills fertile ground with rich initial results.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 22 Aug. 2025
  • Construction can affect the tilling farms need for drainage, while also adding traffic and noise.
    — Jeff Stein, Anchorage Daily News, 24 July 2023
  • The soil will typically not be tilled and will be disturbed as little as possible.
    — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 25 May 2023
  • The wheat fields themselves told their own story—deep brown and newly tilled in autumn, then green in spring, golden in summer.
    — Hannah Howard, Travel + Leisure, 22 Nov. 2025
  • Prepare the soil through core aeration or tilling 4 to 6 inches deep.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 3 June 2026
  • Prepare the soil through core aeration or tilling 4 to 6 inches deep.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 18 July 2024
  • Prepare the soil through core aeration or tilling 4 to 6 inches deep.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 8 Oct. 2025
  • And when the material is applied, it can be injected, or tilled into, the soil to reduce odor.
    — Christine Condon, Baltimore Sun, 11 Mar. 2024
  • Additionally, tilling wet soil can do more harm than good by creating dense soil layers and deep ruts.
    — Nora Doonan, Hartford Courant, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Through the program Richter learned a process of tilling small pieces of rice straw into the ground to mix with the mud while the water covers the field.
    — Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 4 Sep. 2025
  • Solid manure from feedlots, poultry houses or composting dairy barns is spread and tilled under.
    — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 15 Mar. 2026
  • The residue can be left in place on the soil surface or tilled under, providing an abundance of organic matter for soil building.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 9 May 2026
  • The residue can be left in place on the soil surface or tilled under, providing an abundance of organic matter for soil building.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 28 June 2024
  • Wormser suggests tilling the ground and covering it with black plastic to deprive existing grass and weeds of sunlight.
    — Ann Hinga Klein, Martha Stewart, 28 Apr. 2026
  • These fast-growing crops are typically planted in empty gardens at the end of the harvest season and tilled into the soil in spring.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 Aug. 2025
  • Prepare the site by tilling your soil several inches deep to mix the layers and disperse possible pest problems.
    — Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 15 Feb. 2025

till

2 of 2 noun
  • These glacial tills weren’t simply a blip here and a blop there.
    — Laura Poppick july 22, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
  • These boulders get mixed in with much finer sand and clay to form what’s called a till.
    — Laura Poppick july 22, Literary Hub, 22 July 2025
  • And there’s a local shop that has had money go missing from the till.
    — Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 21 June 2024
  • At the till, the cashier marvels at the bright purple cabbage.
    — Bon Appétit Contributor, Bon Appétit, 15 July 2024
  • My nan worked at Safeway and David James went through her till.
    — Jacob Tanswell, The Athletic, 11 Aug. 2024
  • The other one was being on the till–and people used to hate being on the till.
    — Jack McCullough, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
  • But those damn wastrel Republicans keep putting their hands in the till.
    — Teresa M. Hanafin, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Nov. 2022
  • By charging closer to what the market will bear, artists are capturing more of the till.
    — Anne Steele, WSJ, 23 Apr. 2022
  • The company rolled out hundreds of such tills earlier this year as part of the effort.
    — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 21 Nov. 2023
  • And when there are no pennies in the till, rounding to the nearest nickel has become the fallback.
    — Kenneth R. Gosselin, Hartford Courant, 18 Jan. 2026
  • There is a feeling in the country that there are no repercussions for politicians who dip their hands into the till.
    — Aanu Adeoye, Quartz, 30 June 2021
  • The consumer has discovered that pleasure can be purchased without a till in sight.
    — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026
  • Even a child running a lemonade stand tracks money in the till and inventories cups and lemons, with one eye on the weather.
    — Serge Lucio, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2025
  • Booker tills selectively to manage gophers and weed pressure, which keeps it at silver rather than gold.
    — Michelle Williams, Forbes.com, 27 May 2026
  • Get them on page one or as a center spread in a national newspaper – or all of them at once – and the box-office tills would start ringing.
    — Baz Bamigboye, Deadline, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Even with Sally stealing from the till, waitressing’s not enough to cover a fugitive lifestyle like this.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 15 May 2023
  • The quest for some return — any return — has pushed up the prices of those assets that offer the possibility of more than a few basis points in the till.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 12 Dec. 2020
  • Cash isn’t usually kept in the restaurant overnight, an owner said, and most people pay digitally or with a card, so there’s nothing in the till.
    — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Cars pulled into the city’s last open gas station, its windows covered with plywood and its owner manning the till because his workers didn’t feel safe to coming to work.
    — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The Sprouse family farm covers thousands of acres of fertile glacial till, ​​remnants of the last ice age, in northwestern Missouri.
    — Michael Holtz, The New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Classic designs, including the Van Cleef Alhambra, also kept cash tills ringing in the half.
    — Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 14 Nov. 2025
  • This tells me that so long as there is some cash in the till, there will be robberies but with the rewards from robbing banks and businesses falling so armed robbers, like everyone else, will follow the money.
    — David G.w. Birch, Forbes, 26 June 2022
  • And then, right around the 60-minute mark, something happens that gives the till-now quite light proceedings an unexpected emotional resonance.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 Sep. 2021
  • When the youth team’s manager — unaware of Beiranvand’s background — came in to buy a pizza, Beiranvand panicked, refusing to be seen at the till.
    — Colin Millar, New York Times, 27 June 2026
  • Merchants receive significant value by accepting credit cards as cards cost less to handle than cash, checkout lines move faster and there is less crime (no money in the till means fewer robberies).
    — Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The football was one-touch and blissful, the city was buzzing and electric and, all these years later, a middle-aged man who should know much better is carrying a size-large shirt to the tills and, just for a change, is making a fool of himself.
    — George Caulkin, New York Times, 11 June 2026
  • When the clerk refused, according to the law enforcement affidavit filed to support the charges, Barrows walked around to the till, emptied it of its contents and then demanded the clerk’s own money.
    — Flint McColgan, Boston Herald, 10 Apr. 2024
  • In the middle of the lunch rush, The Grill’s manager notices money has gone missing from the till, and the undocumented Pedro is the prime suspect.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2024
  • One heard tales of staff—the waitresses in dirndl skirts, the most powerful and trusted masseurs—who moved to Maria Wörth for higher wages, or employees being dismissed for having their hands in the till.
    — Janine Di Giovanni, Town & Country, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Never mind how many lawmakers have gotten caught with their hands in the till, including a former Alabama House speaker who is supposed to report to prison this week finally.
    — al, 4 Sep. 2020

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