neaten
Example Sentences
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The brief was to reduce the bulk at the sides and neaten the perimeter.
From The Guardian • Apr. 24, 2020
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 • Mar. 6, 2020
Over 24 hours, I watched pundits and advocates try to neaten this case up, with conclusions that might wrangle the story back into something more orderly.
From Washington Post • Aug. 21, 2018
There is only so much we can really put away even though I’ve started making the effort to remove anything truly personal when I neaten up ahead of company.
From Scientific American • Jul. 30, 2017
Smoothing my wrap and running my fingers through my hair to neaten it, I took a deep breath and released it slowly.
From "The Ugly One" by Leanne Statland Ellis
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.