Example Sentences

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Media reports have said Subway is tidying itself up for a sale, but the restaurant chain denied it.

From Reuters • Jul. 6, 2021

Into the night, the caregiver is tidying up and preparing food for the next day.

From Slate • Mar. 16, 2018

It isn’t the one I had hoped for — the inside of my mother’s brain is as topsy-turvy as our apartment — but my daughter is tidying the surface of her grandmother’s addled mind.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2017

It can feel, at times, as if Cale is tidying his legacy—dusting the house before company comes by.

From The New Yorker • Jan. 22, 2017

Gliding through rooms as though it is tidying this, straightening that.

From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison