Sentence examples for lost neatly from inspiring English sources

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"He was lost, neatly, at just the right time, and so I could tell you here the story of a hero: a pilot of the early bombing, justified and absent from the atrocities of later history," Mr. Swift writes.

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Like all diets, both the reducing kind and the religious kind, mine had an element of logic (lose those calories neatly, and at once!) and an element of magic, too (give up the thing you like best and you will appease the gods of aging).

The efficiency with which a player can lose their money neatly converts into a frustrated gambling rage.

She smoothed it down over the wrist and buttoned it neatly, and both lost themselves for a second or two in admiring contemplation of the little symmetrical gloved hand.

Gill said the lost and forgotten series dovetailed neatly with the festival's other goal of finding and promoting new and young British film-makers; an antidote to the focus on star-studded "red carpet" events which dominate many festivals.

This part of the story seems a bit too convenient — Erica's obsession with the past engineered to dovetail with America's nostalgia and with Changez's yearning for a lost Lahore — while her disappearance neatly parallels his departure from America.

Miles stewed in Louisiana over 10 penalties and 5 fumbles (3 lost) on a rainy night that neatly summarized his mood.

(The poem is a potent demonstration of the indispensability of off-rhyme. Most of its movement would be lost if those first two lines rhymed neatly).

Neatly sliced breast of duck was lost in a stir-fried crowd of snow peas, carrots, peppers, corn and scallions.

At least that's the explanation I've come up with for the wild, wild western portion of the puzzle, where I got totally lost, and for the reveal, which is hidden neatly in the southeastern portion of the grid.

Christina Jones Janssen had something more valuable under the couch in her Bay Area home — a lost and extremely rare masterpiece of 18th century painting, neatly rolled up and remarkably well-preserved.

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