Sentence examples for tidy sentences from inspiring English sources

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It is striking, by contrast, how proper and "literary" the earlier work now seems, with its tidy sentences and plush images sewn into the right places, its formal approach to verisimilitude.

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The world is a large place, and summing it up with a single, tidy sentence has a certain appeal in that it brings order to chaos, though it almost always does so at the cost of accuracy and truth.

I don't want to be remembered as "Wow, she sure had a lot of clothing!" or "Colleen sure had a huge collection of books, remember?" I don't want people to smile ruefully and sum me up in these tidy little sentences.

There are lots of different ways to approach the chorus and make it fit the song, but usually you want the chorus to be the part where the theme or the subject is summed up in a tidy little phrase or sentence that sounds good to the ear.

I was struck, as we were going over the story together, and I made the kind of remarks that editors make — e.g., Wouldn't this sentence be tidier if it were done this way?

Tidy finish.

Tidy stuff.

Tidy over.

Short, tidy.

How tidy?

Tidy roads weave through tidy towns with tidy signs.

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