How to use neatly in a sentence

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• She organized her notes neatly on her desk before starting the project.From the entry desk
• The executive board dovetailed its decision neatly with the prior projects the company had taken up.From the entry dovetail
• The Early-Shovel engines fit neatly in the old Panhead swingframe (Duo Glide, Electra Glide).From the entry swingframe
• The demolition squad neatly blew the old hotel up.From the entry blow
• She decorated the room plainly but neatly.From the entry plainly
• All around the neatly arranged victim, the sitting room was a bombsite.2017, Sophie Hénaff, The Awkward Squad. From the entry bombsite
• He had looked backward longer than he realized and neatly dead-centered the lone but firm sapling.2016, Thomas W. Kavanagh, The Life of Ten Bears: Comanche Historical Narratives. From the entry dead-center
• Complex dielectric variations can address neatly the maturity of organic-rich mudrocks.2015, Rezwanur Rahman, John A. Scales, Manika Prasad, “Complex dielectric properties of organic-rich mudrocks as functions of maturity”…. From the entry mudrock
• They were neatly lined up on three shelves between the optics of martini, vodka, whisky and gin.2014, M. P. Wright, Heartman. From the entry optic
• In the top drawer were neatly piled thermals and socks sausaged into pairs.2012, Emily Perkins, The Forrests, Bloomsbury Circus, →ISBN, page 87. From the entry sausage
• Before leaving for home, the children will neatly write their assignments and related directions in their agendas.2011, David Campos, Rocio Delgado, Mary Esther Huerta, Reaching Out to Latino Families of English Language Learners, →ISBN, page 160. From the entry agenda
• Her puss was topped by neatly plaited hair and underscored by a witchly pointed chin.2009, Stephen Schneider, Iced: The Story of Organized Crime in Canada, page 176. From the entry witchly
• Dogs in modern life did not fit neatly into the old categories.2007, David Goode, “At Play and Work: Some Reflections on Companion Dogs and Working Dogs”, in Playing with My Dog Katie: An…. From the entry canophile
• Like other readers, they enjoy good reading and delight in lively, neatly phrased ideas.2004, George Ehrenhaft, Robert L. Lehrman, Allan Mundsack, Fred Obrecht, Barron's How to Prepare for the ACT Assessment, 13th edition…. From the entry throw the bull
• It can be tricky to get the edges stuck together neatly.2002, Georgia Sargeant, Celie Fago, Livia McRee, Polymer Clay, →ISBN, page 33. From the entry stick together
• Lyman Kiser's affairs was neatly stashed somewhere in his mental shelfwork.2002, Mark St. George, A Feast of Savages, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry shelfwork
• The territorial base that each network controlled corresponded neatly with a subcounty administrative unit.1994, Odoric Y. K. Wou, “Mobilizing the Sectarians: The Communists and the Red Spears”, in Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in…. From the entry Queshan
• Seeing as Conrad sees, the Critical Review neatly Byronizes: “A figure approaches — it is Gulnare.1993, Jerome Christensen, Lord Byron's Strength: Romantic Writing and Commercial Society, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 124. From the entry Byronize
• The paint was stacked in neatly pyramided lots along the concrete floor.1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 198. From the entry pyramid
• When you get us all neatly docketed and statisticked, where will you put me?1926, Earning a Living by the Pen, page 81. From the entry statistic
• He folded his razor neatly and with stroking palps of fingers felt the smooth skin.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry palp
• And that sharp hook was caught neatly under the point of the Mexican's jaw.1907, Stewart Edward White, chapter 11, in Arizona Nights. From the entry mex
• Stamps they were indeed, hundreds of penny Queen's Heads neatly mounted on the original sheets.1906, Gibbons Stamp Weekly, page 110. From the entry how
• Neatly spread the garnish all around them.2020, Michel Maincent Morel, THE FRENCH CHEF HANDBOOK: La cuisine de référence version anglaise, Editions BPI, →ISBN, page 945. From the entry tournedo
• Together they’ve helped both actors burrow deeply into their roles and have made sure that our sympathies divide neatly.2018 April 10, Alexis Soloski, “Review: In ‘Dutch Masters,’ Subway Seatmates, So Close and Yet So Far”, in The New York Times. From the entry broish
• Her long hair, whiter than snow at normal times, had been combed out neatly and tied at the back.2016, Yuu Kamiya, translated by Daniel Komen, No Game No Life, volume 4. From the entry petrifact
• But real life rarely resolves as neatly as fiction.2016, Justin Peters, “The Infinite Librarian”, in The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet, New York, N.Y.…. From the entry inflood
• It was neatly arranged with old fashioned furniture.2014, Z A Bukhari, This Love, →ISBN. From the entry fashioned
• 'Well, lad, you've got yourself a Blighty one, by the looks!' The orderly patted Mark's neatly bandaged torso.2014, Judith Saxton, The Glory, →ISBN. From the entry Blighty one
• She lay so neatly and so straight, without a ruckle and with her head just under the top of the bedclothes.2013, Candida Lycett Green, Over The Hills And Far Away, →ISBN. From the entry bedclothes
• It was not often that someone could set her aunt back on her heels so firmly and neatly.2012, Bertrice Small, Love, Remember Me, page 100. From the entry nyssa
• Now his ideas have been neatly combined with those of Gregor Mendel, and the overall narrative – known as ‘neo-Darwinism’—seems complete.2012 June, Colin Tudge, “Selectioneering”, in Literary Journal. From the entry neo-Darwinism
• Once there, he took cover beneath a truck as unchallenged Zeros strafed the neatly parked MAG-21 aircraft and the base facilities.2010, Eric Hammel, Coral and Blood: The U.S. Marine Corps’ Pacific Campaign, page 55. From the entry hotfoot
• From behind her paper, she was flabbergasted to see a neatly dressed man helping himself to her cookies.2008, Dutch Sheets, Watchman Prayer: Keeping the Enemy Out While Protecting Your Family, Home, Gospel Light, page 57. From the entry flabbergasted
• Most male epics follow Joseph Campbell's monomyth pretty neatly; can we expect Barrett Browning to do the same?2008, E. L. Risden, Heroes, Gods and the Role of Epiphany in English Epic Poetry, McFarland, →ISBN, page 143. From the entry monomyth
• Thatched cottages, manors, old mills, venerable churches and wooded lanes personify a John Bull fancy, neatly tucked into gentle hill folds.2005, David W. Moore, The Other British Isles, →ISBN, page 183. From the entry John Bull
• Today, they are restored homes, handsome buildings painted in crisp whites or colonial blues or reds with neatly trimmed yards.2005, Craig Thompson Friend, Along the Maysville Road, page 1. From the entry colonial blue
• A “zone of rarity” emerges when symptoms cluster neatly into syndromes and interforms are uncommon, although not altogether absent.2004, Gerald Rosen, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder: Issues and Controversies, page 127. From the entry syndrome
• I think Pisrael meets the definition rather neatly.2003 February 15, martin, “Pisrael and Nazism”, in soc.culture.jewish (Usenet), archived from the original on 10 Feb 2026. From the entry Pisrael

Meaning of neatly

1. adverb In a neat manner.

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Questions about neatly in a sentence

How do you use neatly in a sentence?

Neatly is used as an adverb. For example: “She organized her notes neatly on her desk before starting the project.”

What is a short sentence with neatly?

“Neatly spread the garnish all around them.”

What does neatly mean?

Neatly means in a neat manner.