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
How can you tidy up if many, many things bring you joy?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 12, 2025
The teenager, suffering from depression, had been unable to tidy up herself.
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
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