Example Sentences
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More recently, I tidied the home of a friend who was in the hospital, the pill bottles and crumpled blankets left in situ as evidence of someone else’s pain.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
That night, Gil tidied up around the store, cleaned the bathroom, got ready to close for the day.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026
I tidied up the wiring using the kind of tape that the factory would have used in 1939.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 14, 2025
Molting peacocks squawked in the distance and a Pacific breeze whispered through the eucalyptus as flamingo keeper Liz Gibbons tidied her station at the San Francisco Zoo.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2025
Then she tidied up the Nursery and put the kettle on the hob.
From "Mary Poppins" by P. L. Travers
