Example Sentences

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Maybe all of this chaos will be tidily wrapped up before the end of the month and any fallout will be mercifully avoided.

From Slate • Mar. 6, 2026

It’s a tidily balanced sampling that the actors, with Garland’s banter and via some cozy downtime, turn into flesh-and-blood personalities, people whose vulnerability feeds the escalating tension with each mile.

From New York Times • Apr. 11, 2024

The famed Japanese bento box, with its tidily boxed meals, is the parent of Taiwan's bento bowl - rice heaped with braised meat, eggs, tofu or vegetables.

From BBC • Jan. 6, 2024

There's a scene in an earlier season that sums up this dynamic tidily: During a prank war, fake cops are called to a party to handcuff Sandoval as retribution for toilet-papering Jax's house.

From Salon • May 26, 2023

They were laid there tidily but yet untidily, as if a very tidy person had taken them to the place, but had forgotten the reason when he got there.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White