Example Sentences

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The agent has been scheduling showings every week and weekend, so Flores’ team has been tidying up the place three times a week since it first listed for sale.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 23, 2022

Along with residents in the city's Blair Street, he has been tidying up his patch of pavement before starting his daily human statue routine.

From BBC • Aug. 21, 2022

In the last few weeks, Mr. Ayer has been tidying up “Fury,” dropping in the last of his special effects shots and filming some brief inserts.

From New York Times • Jul. 30, 2014

There, behind a door bearing only the brass nameplate "Comrade Khrushchev, N.S.," the First Secretary has been tidying up the political battlefield following his sensational breakthrough of 1957.

From Time Magazine Archive

"He has been tidying the place in his labour-saving way," explained Heyst, without looking at the girl, whose hand rested on his forearm.

From Victory An Island Tale by Conrad, Joseph