Sentence examples for alphabetise from inspiring English sources
verb
Standard spelling of from=non-Oxford British spelling
So, I harassed them, asked if I could come in and alphabetise things that didn't need alphabetising and make tea, and they let me.
I alphabetise the spice rack, separate the Lego from the Playmobile, colour-code the knicker drawers - it's scary!
We say Three hundred pages of web-style food inspiration that will make you want to edit your cutlery drawer and alphabetise your herbs.
Thought I'd alphabetise the spice cabinet, or maybe reorganise the sock drawer..
"Absolutely the best Booker winner ever," says hornswoggle, "The most impressive, sustained construction of a severely limited world, and the technical ability required to alphabetise dialect of that density has not been sufficiently appreciated".
He's as contented as a clam, holed up with Bubbles, a Bette Davis DVD collection to alphabetise and an open-ended excuse to stay home from work.
I was doing anything - making cups of tea for people who already had tea, alphabetising things that really didn't need alphabetising, trying to be a bit indispensable.
This doesn't make us feel too dirty, but only because ex-Glee man Jonathan Groff is so squeaky clean and adorable he could storm through your flat, spill red wine on your landlord's cream sofa, de-alphabetise your DVD collection and kick your cat, and you'd still be all "GET OVER HERE! You're so cute, look at you in your little jumper!" He's like a puppy made human.
Sure, colouring in your revision calendar or alphabetising your flash cards feels productive – but is it really revision?
If you're the type of man who alphabetises his trainer collection or arranges his vinyls by the director of the accompanying video, listen up: each pair is a holy artefact, presented in a wooden box and accompanied by a book all about the dry selvage fabric from which that pair is made.
And it was a company – alphabetised for an appearance of order, but soon discovered to include an impossibly varied body – whose individual attitudes, presentation, bulk, even smells, were each unique.
