preposition
definition
Until; to, up to; as late as (a given time).
example
I have to work till eight o'clock tonight.
definition
To, up to (physically).
example
They led him till his tent
definition
To make it possible that.
conjunction
definition
Until, until the time that.
example
Maybe you can, maybe you can't: you won't know till you try.
Examples of till in a Sentence
I shall not be at peace till you promise me this.
It will not see me till it comes very near.
Then he added, "She'll probably take a nap till the sun goes down."
Not till then! she said.
But can you stay till tomowwow?
In the same year Rainer became curator of the Academy of Sciences, a position which he filled till his death.
It was as if they had not known each other till now.
And so the fun went on until the clock showed that it lacked only ten minutes till school would be dismissed.
The young Alexius was ignored by his father till he was nine years old.
No man ever followed his genius till it misled him.
You'd better wait till she's married....
If the engine whistles, let it whistle till it is hoarse for its pains.
It lacked only one minute till the bell would strike the time for dismissal.
I only have to make the pies, but won't do that till we get back.
He lay quite still till the animal was very near.
As the conversation began to assume a loftier and grander tone, we gradually shoved our chairs farther apart till they touched the wall in opposite corners, and then commonly there was not room enough.
The intimacy began in 28 and lasted till 23 B.C. These six years must not, however, be supposed to have been a period of unbroken felicity.
I, too, will try, try again, till I succeed.
Till midday on the nineteenth, the activity--the eager talk, running to and fro, and dispatching of adjutants--was confined to the Emperor's headquarters.
You should have gone on long ago, now you won't get there till evening.
No, Natasha and I sometimes don't go to sleep till after two, so please don't go.
It was an exciting chase of king by king, in which each covered the ground by incredible exertions, shedding their slower-going followers as they went, past Rhagae (Rai) and the Caspian gates, till early one morning Alexander came in sight of the broken train which still clung to the fallen king.
A day or two, then bliss unspoilt, But oh! till then I cannot live!...
Wait till tomorrow morning, we'll find out everything tomorrow.
They stayed till closing, and I followed him out.
She reached England on the 13th of May 1662, but was not visited by Charles at Portsmouth till the loth.
At midnight, when there was a moon, I sometimes met with hounds in my path prowling about the woods, which would skulk out of my way, as if afraid, and stand silent amid the bushes till I had passed.
Real cotton goods were not made in Lancashire till 1641, when Bolton is named as the chief seat of the manufacture of fustians, vermilions and dimities.
The error brought him into fresh disgrace lasting till his death.
Till 1649 Descartes lived in Holland.
In such moments of baffled inquiry he would leave his books, perform the requisite ablutions, then hie to the mosque, and continue in prayer till light broke on his difficulties.
It was not till the reign of Henry II.
There is an extraordinary session from October till Christmas.
But the wind slides eastward over its opaque surface in vain, till it reaches the living surface beyond.
Yes, I did not know anything, anything at all till now.
You want me to tell Death to wait till you get back?
But they sat again for this purpose under Mary and Elizabeth and (save between 1640 and 1661) continued regular criminal sessions till towards the end of the 17th century as continuously and constantly as the king's courts (op. cit.).
The drug was little used till 1763, when Baron Storck of Vienna introduced it for the treatment of dropsy.
You're only joking, I'm afraid-- Just wait till I am bigger.
Who would not be early to rise, and rise earlier and earlier every successive day of his life, till he became unspeakably healthy, wealthy, and wise?
I myself will remain in hospital at Ostrolenka till I recover.
He paced through the ballroom, waited till everyone had come, and as Anatole had not turned up did not stay for dinner but drove home.
When he appeared at the door she grew flurried, evidently undecided whether to go to meet him or to wait till he came up.
From July to October the level of the Senegal shows a series of fluctuations, with, however, a general increase till the end of August or beginning of September, when the maximum occurs.
Blesdijk's Historia (not printed till 1642) accuses Jorisz of having plures uxores.
The city of Leon, founded by Francisco Hernandez de Cordova in 1523, was originally situated at the head of the western bay of Lake Managua, and was not removed to its present position till 1610.
During his later years he served as commissioner of the navy, and was president of the board of naval commissioners from 1833 till his death at Washington on the 27th of February 1840.
If I could have foreseen what a stir my writings would make, I think I should have jealously guarded the privacy of this sanctuary where, till then, I perhaps was the only soul who had fed the artist's visions and the poet's dreams. But I had no such anticipation; I never gave it a thought.
Not till 1881, however, were the Croatian-Slavonian march-lands completely merged in the kingdoms to which they naturally belonged.
He was afterwards appointed the prince's envoy at Paris, where he remained till the decree of Napoleon, forbidding all persons born on the left side of the Rhine to serve any other state than France, compelled him to resign his office (IS'I).