tidy up

Example Sentences

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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

But for Neo to autonomously tidy up your kitchen in the future, it needs a smarter brain.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 28, 2025

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

From Salon • Sep. 1, 2025

When the front door slammed behind her father and Henry, she went to her father’s chair to tidy up the papers he had left on the floor beside it.

From "Go Set a Watchman: A Novel" by Harper Lee