Sentence examples for spick-and-span from inspiring English sources

The phrase "spick-and-span" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used to describe something that is very clean and neat. For example, "The kitchen was spick-and-span after I finished my cleaning."

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spick-and-span

adjective

Clean, spotless; original sense “like new”.

  • I mopped up the kitchen floor so it was spick-and-span.

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A spick-and-span city, then?

I like this spick-and-span version of our supposedly gross ancestors.

The courses are beautifully landscaped well appointed and spick-and-span.

I stopped for a coffee at Harbor Springs, a spick-and-span resort town – not smug, but reeking of contentment.

The switch looked spick-and-span now, like a pot or a pan belonging to a fastidious old woman.

"They weren't spick-and-span enough to make me comfortable running a professional business," Mr. Murray said.

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The car was spick and span.

It was kept spick and span by Mrs Jonquière.

Everything is spick and span and well arranged.

Nothing can shock me, love" – keeping things spick and span.

Rai University is spick and span whereas JNU is sprawling and untidy.

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