neaten

Example Sentences

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To neaten the top, crease the strips at top of the basket, fold over to the other side and tuck into a lower layer.

From New York Times

Attempting to retroactively neaten up the cultural record may be convenient for corporations looking to avoid a bad news cycle, and for artists looking to preserve their reputations.

From Washington Post

The brief was to reduce the bulk at the sides and neaten the perimeter.

From The Guardian

The reader struggles, along with Vanessa, to make sense of what is happening, to interpolate, to see the truth, with so many false accounts, so many delusions, so many efforts to neaten or prettify.

From New York Times

In the company’s classic Franco Zeffirelli production, after Rodolfo calls out to ask who’s at the door and a woman’s voice answers, he rushes over to a mirror to neaten his hair.

From New York Times