NEAT in a Sentence

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For NEAT, below is one of 165 sentences:
They passed within view of a stolid white house, and saw in front of it groups of their comrades lying in wait behind a neat breastwork.

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 Meanings and Examples of NEAT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
neat
 a.  clean or orderly
Classic Sentence: (139 in 10 pages)
1  What a pity legs could not be shown, she thought, pulling up her petticoats and regretfully viewing them, plump and neat under pantalets.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  That was a neat way of smoothing a man's vanity and yet keeping him on the string, and Charles rose to it as though such bait were new and he the first to swallow it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  The neat wooden-paneled fence had been newly painted white and the front yard it inclosed was yellow starred with the last jonquils of the season.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
4  Scarlett had found that a drink of neat brandy before supper helped immeasurably and she would always chew coffee or gargle cologne to disguise the smell.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
5  The contrast between the dirty, hairy old man and the four neat, fastidious ladies was as great as though he were a grizzled, vicious old watchdog and they four small kittens.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
6  Tragedy in neat blouses; the eternal flame all nice and safe in a kerosene stove.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
7  In shape, he differs in some degree from the Huzza Porpoise, being of a less rotund and jolly girth; indeed, he is of quite a neat and gentleman-like figure.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
8  The Russians had a neat log house built on a grassy slope, with a windlass well beside the door.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: V
9  He was clean and neat as usual, with his green neckcloth and his coral pin.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
10  In the yard, which was kept scrupulously neat, were flowers and plants of every description which flourishes in South Louisiana.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVII
11  The guests are expected to pay for this entertainment; if they be proper guests, they will see that there is a neat sum left over for the bride and bridegroom to start life upon.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
12  The youth, forgetting his neat plan of getting killed, gazed spell bound.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
13  They passed within view of a stolid white house, and saw in front of it groups of their comrades lying in wait behind a neat breastwork.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
14  Saying this, she drew him into a neat little apartment opening on the verandah, where she generally sat at her sewing, within call of her mistress.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
15  In front it had a neat garden-patch, where, every summer, strawberries, raspberries, and a variety of fruits and vegetables, flourished under careful tending.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  She undressed and put her wet clothes in a neat pile in the corner.
2  She has a neat figure.
3  He gave a neat summary of the financial situation.
4  She wore her hair in a neat coil.
5  Keep your room neat and clean.
6  They sat in her neat and tidy kitchen.
7  I received a letter from him in neat script.
8  Several men are pushing school desks and chairs into neat rows.
9  As she said this, she came upon a neat little house, on the door of which was a bright brass plate.
10  Today, by comparison, they are increasingly a blend of native broadleaf species, such as larch, oak, willow and ash, with neat rows of Douglas firs and Sitka spruces.
11  Before making her presentation at the conference, Ellen wrote up a neat precis of the major elements she would cover.
12  As she said this, she came upon a neat little house, on the door of which was a bright brass plate with the name "W. RABBIT" engraved upon it.
13  If Hollis was a double agent then the Crabb affair fits neatly into the jigsaw.
14  The squares of fabric were all sewn neatly together.
15  Rule out neatly any words which you don't wish the examiner to read.