How to Use neat in a Sentence

neat

adjective

• Fold the paper to make a neat edge.
• The store is always busy but they manage to keep the shelves stocked and neat.
• He keeps his apartment neat and clean.
• She's a neat person who has traveled a lot.
• There is, unfortunately, no neat solution to the problem.
• He's got a neat way of memorizing information.
• This one is a bit more sparse than the Pleiades, but still neat to see.
  — Briley Lewis, Popular Science, 27 Mar. 2023
• His hands, adorned with rings, lie at his sides on the neat white linens.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2023
• Sure would be neat to have Face ID on the Mac right about now!
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 26 Sep. 2023
• The street is free of trash, the houses are neat and maintained.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2024
• The show is clear-eyed and irony-free, the plot laid out in neat, straight planking.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 25 Jan. 2024
• Once in the city, the sides of roads and sidewalks are blocked by neat piles of sawed pine and oak trunks.
  — James Call, USA TODAY, 3 Sep. 2023
• Place each radish on the base of the egg slicer and gently press down to create neat slices.
  — Maryal Miller Carter, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
• The boards weren’t measured and cut to fit at nice, neat right angles.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 1 Feb. 2024
• The machining on the parts is neat and clean, and all the folding joints were tight and smooth.
  — Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 26 July 2023
• But to be able to break it, be a part of that, is really neat.
  — Bob Nightengale, USA TODAY, 12 July 2023
• For those who like to have a neat crease in their pants, a crease tool might be in order.
  — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 Feb. 2024
• Shirts have ties that can be fixed at the neck and waist in neat bows, or left loose to switch up the silhouette.
  — Ellie Pithers, Vogue, 14 Mar. 2023
• A lot of the gifts [our families] give us don’t come in the neatest packages.
  — Jean Guerrero, Los Angeles Times, 26 Sep. 2023
• Sure enough, the four-month-old image showed neat rows of something abloom in the Croft backyard.
  — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 13 Feb. 2023
• Theirs is one of a collection of streets lined with neat, ranch‐style homes, single‐family, with small front yards.
  — Alex Mar, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
• In a neat trick, Eliot makes the case for Zionism both philo-Semitic and anti-Semitic at the same time.
  — Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2024
• Everything was so neat, even the blanket — same as you.
  — Starr Bowenbank, Billboard, 7 Aug. 2023
• He was struck by how neat the second-floor apartment was.
  — Chelsia Rose Marcius, New York Times, 3 Apr. 2023
• Use a piping bag or cut the corner on a zip-top bag to easily create a neat dollop of sour cream.
  — Lisa Cericola, Southern Living, 20 June 2026
• These categories are not always so neat.
  — Danielle Zickl, Health, 20 June 2026
• But human behaviour is rarely that neat.
  — Kate Hardcastle, Forbes.com, 19 June 2026
• The result is a floral and slightly sweet gin that can be enjoyed neat or used in any traditional or modern cocktail.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 18 June 2026
• Real life is complicated and chaotic, and rarely fits into neat categories of right and wrong.
  — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 18 June 2026
• Backyards look very different from the neat lawns of the past.
  — Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 17 June 2026