Tilled in a sentence

Compost and manure can be added to the garden and tilled in if needed to increase nutrients and organic matter.

In modern-day America, where all the soil has been tilled and all the land conquered, the immigrant is the new frontiersman, and their stories are the new westerns.

The middle-aged woman’s face was grooved like newly tilled rows of arid soil.

In April, I tilled a sunny patch of soil on the side of our house and fenced it in. In May, I transplanted my seedlings and crossed my fingers.

Re-tilled furrows wait for a sprout to appear, and a new generation of hungry leafhoppers peek in from the edges — from their blade-eye perspective, the whole world is beginning anew.

Soils that have been no-tilled and have a cover crop growing on them can carry more weight before ruts begin to form.

The Soybean Watch ’20 field in central Indiana was no-tilled with a 15-inch, split-row planter into cornstalks.

This is why when I fly over the country, I rejoice because everything is in order, all the crops have been collected, all the fields have been tilled on time.

We deep-tilled severely compacted sand and gravel on 30-inch centers when it was in corn.

When tilled back into the ground, it provides fertilizer for next year’s crop.

Scouring books of fiqh, I learned the rights of women in Islam which affirmed that we are not human possessions meant to be tilled; women have undeniable rights to pleasure and protection of our most sacred human parts.

That was when President George Washington, onetime owner of a hemp plantation tilled by African slaves, led a column of 13,000 militiamen against a few dozen Western Pennsylvania grain farmers who refused to pay taxes levied on distilled liquor.

A hole is created in the tilled earth with a tobacco peg, either a curved wooden tool or deer antler.

Cultivated land becomes more fertile and productive over time, while tilled land tends to go down in productivity over time due to erosion and the removal of nutrients with every harvest.

Cultivation decreases soil nitrogen by exposing soil organic matter to decomposition by microorganisms, and soils under no-tillage maintain more soil nitrogen than tilled soils.

It can be used to prevent the growth of winter-hardy weeds, citation and can either be harvested as a bonus crop or tilled directly into the ground in spring to provide more organic matter for the next summer's crop.

Large estates ( latifundia ) that produced crops for export, often were managed for absentee owners and used slave labor ; these occupied lands previously tilled by small local farmers.

Russians At the time of Catherine’s reign, the landowning noble class owned the serfs, who were bound to the land they tilled.

The fact that Pytheas lived centuries before the colonization of Iceland and Greenland by European agriculturalists makes them less likely candidates, as Thule was populated and its soil was tilled.

They were continually seeking to destroy the Nephites who tilled the land, grew fruit in orchards, and tended flocks of cattle and goats and horses.