Example Sentences

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In one, he holds a liter-size stoneware mug, foam spilling untidily over its rim; with the other, he’s carefully transferring a small, not entirely compliant child from a stroller to a long wooden bench.

From Washington Post • Aug. 19, 2022

Gradually, after he was gone, the place had filled up untidily with her hobbies—oil painting for a while, then weaving, then the University of the Third Age.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 21, 2019

The “belt” of the B.R.I. refers to the Silk Road Economic Belt, a tangle of rail and highway routes currently vining their way untidily across the continent from eastern China to Scandinavia.

From New York Times • Jan. 30, 2019

And perhaps that is the crux of the authenticity conversation — Lynch’s Early was thoughtful and complicated and untidily vulnerable.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2017

I could see papers scattered untidily over one of the writing desks nearby.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro