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UK
/tˈɪl/
]
[ US /ˈtɪɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈtɪɫ/ ]
NOUN
- unstratified soil deposited by a glacier; consists of sand and clay and gravel and boulders mixed together
- a treasury for government funds
- a strongbox for holding cash
VERB
-
work land as by ploughing, harrowing, and manuring, in order to make it ready for cultivation
till the soil
How To Use till In A Sentence
- Sceptics stung by that debacle may still be wary. Times, Sunday Times
- He watched them disappear from his view, his father still waddling along with that bloody basket.
- I'm still in contact with her - we write a couple of times a year.
- However, we still rely entirely on the generosity of the public for funding.
- He slapped away a few dryads, but they still surrounded him.
- Although he has mellowed a little since then, he is still a long way from being easy listening. Times, Sunday Times
- My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
- You submit to subterfuge, you replace your ordinary parents by a little less ordinary, but still quite ordinary folks, Katrien and the commissaris. Just a Corpse at Twilight
- I'm still feeling a bit cranially sprained, mind you, but the cat seems perfectly happy to be spending a snow day on the couch with me, watching S3 of Mission: Impossible. The Snowpocalypse Continues
- The only people she would be able to talk to in English would be Ovidiu, and marginally to Rica with the broken language he was still trying to learn.