neaten

Example Sentences

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Few things neaten a naturalistic garden like fresh edging around beds.

From Washington Post • Mar. 8, 2023

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

They fundamentally try to neaten things up and make it look more rational than it is.

From Salon • Oct. 6, 2012

I clean up my bed on the couch, and Dad and Steph neaten my bedroom, where they’re staying.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila