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Example Sentences
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“I had high hopes for Los Padrinos. It was a new start. We had that facility spick and span,” said Hahn.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 27, 2023
I filled out the form on their website to register a request to clean a filthy bus stop area and in less than 24 hours the bus stop was spick and span!
From Seattle Times • Oct. 16, 2018
The entire block could be dirty and dishevelled but the front of 947 Bennett Place was always spick and span.
From The Guardian • Oct. 19, 2017
In true Wolfeian style, Chomsky is repeatedly portrayed as a nasty and arrogant twit, reigning smugly as the King of Linguistics “in an air-conditioned office at MIT, spick and span.”
From Washington Post • Aug. 31, 2016
Nightingale answers, “Sir, this is a spell against ’em, spick and span new: and ’tis made as ’twere in mine own person, and I sing it in mine own defence.
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles
