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Example sentences for "tidily"

Lexicographically close words:
tides; tidewater; tideway; tidied; tidies; tidiness; tiding; tidinges; tidings; tidor
  1. And in the middle of the room is an enormous double writing table piled tidily with much appropriate impedimenta, blue books and pamphlets and with an especial heap of unopened letters and parcels.

  2. After a time he came to where the pleasanter subject, on her knees, was weeding among the flowers that grew tidily round Moccasin Spring.

  3. The coals were piled in a neat heap; the dross was swept tidily into a corner; the briquettes were built in an accurate pile.

  4. It was a bright, frosty morning, and the trim villas with their newly cleaned doorsteps and tidily brushed-up gardens looked pleasant, homely places as they regarded them from the top of a car.

  5. At home they make me to eat tidily with a napkin, but I like it better thus.

  6. A room so furnished would, as Dove expressed it, look solid, and mean a heavy purse, and perhaps a nice little nest-egg laid by tidily in one of the drawers or bureaus.

  7. When Jasmine ran into the room Primrose was standing by the dressing-table, and in her usual methodical fashion was putting tidily away her own things and her sisters'; now she faced Jasmine with a little smile on her face.

  8. Always after they had eaten their food Jack washed up the things in a bucket, and put them tidily by in their places in the waggon, while the men lounged by the fire and smoked.

  9. When he had finished, he pleased Martha very much by helping her to wash up the breakfast-things, and she was surprised and delighted to find how careful he was in drying and putting by the cups and saucers tidily in the cupboards.

  10. She always curtseyed politely, was always tidily dressed, had even plaited the blue ribbon into her fair hair with a certain taste.

  11. Every separate bit of money, whatever kind of coins they were, had been tidily sewn up in a shred of leather; remnants of old gloves of all colours; and the Narbonne jar contained six hundred and eighty-seven of them.

  12. A few ravelling threads of this our desultory tale have yet to be gathered up, as tidily as may be.

  13. On the table stood medicine bottles and decanters tidily arranged, and the linen needed was folded up there, and Kitty's broderie anglaise.

  14. There's plenty for you to do," said Beatrice, fishing out the satchel and putting it tidily away on Gwen's special shelf.

  15. No, dear, it is too hot; besides, you have not put your books and things away tidily in your room.

  16. Such dreadful confusion ensued from this, that Mrs. Graham proposed that one should do the unpacking, while the other put the things away tidily in the drawers.

  17. Eloquent bustled about putting the remains of Miss Buttermish tidily into his suit-case while the grey eyes followed his movements with amused interest.

  18. A frail old lady to whom one was never presented save tidily clad and fresh from the hands of nurse for a few moments, with injunctions still ringing in one's ears as to the necessity for a quiet and decorous demeanour.

  19. The latter was plainly though tidily dressed, and did not look like an educated person.

  20. Now, these were placed tidily away on a shelf just beside little Agnes's bed, but the bed itself was empty.

  21. It was between six and seven o'clock when Agnes, neatly and tidily dressed, came downstairs, accompanied by Irene, who led her straight into the drawing room.

  22. And the table-cloth, which was wrapped up tidily and put in the dresser drawer, came out as clean as ever, with not a single black footmark upon it.

  23. She rose from her seat, and put them all tidily away on a side-table.

  24. Presently the grandfather got up and came to the table with a jug and the cheese, and there he saw it already tidily laid with the round loaf and two plates and two knives each in its right place.

  25. He returned to the loft with a large, thick sack, made of flax, which he laid tidily over the bed.

  26. Her grandfather came to her assistance, and when they had got it tidily spread over the bed, it all looked so nice and warm and comfortable that Heidi stood gazing at it in delight.

  27. He buried his last meal between two bricks in the kitchen floor, and covered it very tidily with a bit of newspaper.

  28. Such is the nature of the country all the way to Urondogani, except in some favoured spots, kept as tidily as in any part of Uganda, where plantains grow in the utmost luxuriance.

  29. Have plenty of clean water at hand and wash the surface up tidily as fast as the rubbing proceeds.

  30. The latter should be cleanly and tidily done, quite as thorough, indeed, as the sandpapering or any other of the operations, all alike important.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tidily" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.