How to Use till in a Sentence

till

1 of 2 verb

• The farmers are tilling the soil.
• The farmers are out there tilling their fields and planting.
  — Christine Fernando, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
• This newest work of his is rooted in soil he’s been tilling for some years.
  — Christian Schneider, National Review, 27 July 2023
• Please don’t think about tilling anything into the soil.
  — oregonlive, 4 June 2023
• 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
• Our ancestors tilled the earth, domesticated the beasts of the land, all in the hopes that one day, centuries hence, their descendants would be able to invent these spicy cheese puffs.
  — Nena Farrell, WIRED, 11 Oct. 2023
• In the meantime, volunteers with Friends of the Ballona Wetlands are tilling the soil and preparing to put in scores of new trees and plants to help with the environmental restoration.
  — Erika D. Smith, Los Angeles Times, 20 Sep. 2023
• Now that the picking has ended, Barnes will get back on his tractor and begin tilling under the stalks to prepare for a fall planting of cabbage, broccoli and collards.
  — Jim Morrison, Washington Post, 14 Aug. 2023
• Unlike most of southern New Jersey, the Glassboro forest had never been cleared or tilled for agriculture.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 18 Apr. 2023
• 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
• 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
• The rest was tilled into the ground.
  — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2025
• 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

till

2 of 2 noun

• A few minutes passed, and Rachael started running the tickets through the till.
  — Francesca Street, CNN, 31 May 2022
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Lang recalls her children and grandchildren playing and jumping on trampolines in various corners of the greenhouse through the years and frequent customers trusting the arithmetic of a 9-year-old working at the till.
  — Alixel Cabrera, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Oct. 2021
• 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
• The consumer has discovered that pleasure can be purchased without a till in sight.
  — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 17 Jan. 2026