Put (things or places) in order.
Care for one's external appearance.
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Examples for "tidy "
1 The inside of the house is quite tidy and needs no work.
2 Of particular value to local heritage groups and and tidy town committees.
3 At least Britain could fight a tidy war to an emphatic conclusion.
4 It was not, and was never likely to be, a tidy result.
5 The caretaker went in to check the police had left things tidy .
1 But I want to straighten out Sarah Cartwright as soon as possible.
2 Miranda with a few minutes of privacy: Find clothes, straighten the bedspread.
3 Are thousands of them hunched at the wheel unable to straighten up?
4 He had seen that Allday was unable to straighten his back properly.
5 I recover from the back-slapping and straighten up: It's going well, Harry.
1 We appeal to the powers that be to tidy up the walk.
2 Maggie left her sitting there, and began to tidy up the house.
3 When I go home at night I get supper and tidy up !
4 MAIDS look at the mad symmetrical debris, and begin to tidy up .
5 The room looked as if it had been given a good tidy up .
1 He needs to: clean up politics; protect the economy; and extend opportunity.
2 Experts say measures adopted since 2010 have helped clean up supply chains.
3 Mr Tupou said those funds wouldn't be used for the clean up .
4 This matter was a problem enough without further complications to clean up .
5 Local authorities must now clean up after this night of so-called fun.
1 But I want to straighten out Sarah Cartwright as soon as possible.
2 I have an idea that I shall straighten out this tangle yet.
3 Now it's gotten to the point where even she couldn't straighten out .
4 And those are the furrows I have been trying to straighten out .
5 And bit by bit the fiction let him straighten out his life.
1 She snatched the paper square away before he could touch her mouth.
2 I think it would be better to square away for Mangareva.
3 Just a square away from Stewart's Business Palace stands Cooper Union.
4 It's just territory stuff they need to square away before we can get to business.
5 Let the ship fall-of, and square away the yards!
1 Work around the edge with a table knife, to neaten .
2 Not all of us can or want to neaten up the rough edges of our lives.
3 She automatically pats her hair to neaten it.
4 Carefully trim the overhanging pastry to neaten .
5 Trim the fish fillets to neaten the edges, then remove any pin bones with a pair of kitchen tweezers.
6 With the back of a large spoon, neaten the edges and lightly press the potatoes to make a flat cake.
7 When you're happy with the size, neaten the edges of the cross with a scissors and tie them with elastic.
8 Roll each piece lightly between your palms to neaten the shape (you don't have to make perfect rounds).
9 The earth swallowed them back and smoothed over them as if a giant hand had come to neaten everything up.
10 The New Yorker, March 31, 1997 P. 78 While talking to my mother I neaten things.
11 Make sure your CV is updated and neaten up your online image before you reach out to recruitment agencies within the area.
12 The only time I see him in even vague bad humour is when a wardrobe assistant tries to neaten a dancer's hair.
13 He hadn't shaved off the beard, though he'd obviously done his best to neaten it up, and he'd made an attempt at combing his hair.
14 He had less than an hour's work, mostly neatening up the edges.
15 As the message played, Langdon quickly put away the playbill, neatening the desk.
16 She neatened the blanket and climbed to the bedroom on the top floor.
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