Sentence examples for Neaten from inspiring English sources
verb
To make neat; arrange in an orderly, tidy way; to tidy.
- She made an attempt to neaten her hair.
(The Porsche, which is yellow, is for sale describes a Porsche which just happens to be yellow).H.W. Fowler suggested this rule to neaten English grammar in the 1920s.
Stereotypes are there to speed up speech, to neaten arguments, to oil the wheels of planning and progress.
Roll the rolling pin across the top of the flan ring to trim off the excess pastry, then neaten up the edges by going round and pinching them with your thumb and forefinger.
While talking to my mother I neaten things.
She is called on to minimize the damage and neaten up the look.
To neaten it up, I threw on a rough linen-cotton blend blazer with a soft suede underbelly beneath the collar ($3,300).
Ruth Sanders, a professor of German Studies at Miami University in Ohio, takes just such a view in her new book, telling the millennia-long story of German and how it got that way.Ms Sanders neatens the history by choosing six turning points to trace the development of German or, more accurately, the Germanic languages.
Nevertheless, if you smeared off the make-up and neatened up the models' hair – and, perhaps, pulled a few of the skewed garments back straight – this collection could be easily worn by many.
She crouched down and tapped the papers against the floor, neatening the pile, making a crisp little sound, wanting above all to avoid the appearance of untowardness, wanting the whole operation to feel as tidy, as considered as possible.
We can now see that most art begins in plurality, even if it is temporarily neatened into movements by artists, critics and art historians.
I quickly neatened up the stack of cards into a square pile, shoved them back across the table to the judge and removed my earmuffs and earplugs.
