tidy up

Example Sentences

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There was little left to tidy up after she died at the age of 91 on March 12 in Gothenburg, Sweden, where she was living in a retirement home.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 19, 2026

The plot gets pleasingly messy despite starring a leading lady who was quite literally constructed to tidy up.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 4, 2026

A new profession has emerged reflecting that statistic: cleaners who are called in to tidy up homes after their occupants, most of whom lived alone, have died.

From Barron's • Nov. 2, 2025

To tidy up some financial business, we recently engaged in some online banking.

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2025

He wanted to tidy up his mother’s flower garden, a treasured patch of disheveled foliage that grew beneath her bedroom window.

From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote