Sentence examples for neat quiet from inspiring English sources

Voters lined up in neat, quiet lines before dawn.

His parents' house is a neat, freshly painted suburban home with a neat, well-tended garden in a neat, quiet street.

Late at night, he walks the neat, quiet sidewalks in the neighborhood where he is staying with an aunt, chain-smoking cigarettes, his mind spinning furiously with questions about why he was convicted 27 years ago and how to spend what is left of his life.

They sat down in a neat, quiet row, facing the parents.

Fleming's wife Ann had joined him in Les Avants and the couple then moved on to Naples, where Fleming interviewed Lucky Luciano, finding him "a neat, quiet, grey-haired man with a tired good-looking face".

"The house still isn't as neat or quiet as I would like it to be, and once in a while I say something.

Slight, neat, and quiet, Bain was a former fund-raiser for Vanderbilt University, with no formal training in business or economics.

She'd cleaned her room and kept it spare, and was considered a model inmate, neat and quiet and nearly invisible.

Big, smart houses line neat and quiet streets surrounded by fields, with convenient access to the interstate and a good school district.

And yet, these children did not get their comeuppance – these are no cautionary tales – there is no gruesome moral shoving a reluctantly impressionable reader towards conforming to the neat, the quiet and the un-troublesome.

Because most parents expect children to do things that are unrealistic for their age (such as be neat and quiet, and come when called at the age of three or four), and because most parents get frustrated, annoyed or angry when their children don't do what they're told, most children conclude "there must be something wrong with me" if mom and dad are upset with me so often, or "I'm not good enough".