How to Use neaten in a Sentence

neaten

verb

• For instance, your hedges may need regular trims to clean up and neaten their appearance and keep a consistent straight side.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 7 Nov. 2025
• For instance, your hedges may need regular trims to clean up and neaten their appearance and keep a consistent straight side.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 22 Feb. 2026
• Deadheading can not only neaten your garden, but also encourage a new round of blooms.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 3 June 2026
• Lightly cut them back by one-third to remove dead or damaged foliage, encourage new growth, and neaten their appearance if needed.
  — Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 16 Dec. 2025
• If your shrub is mostly dead at the bottom, try shaping it into an attractive tree form by removing lower limbs and neatening the top.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 25 Apr. 2026
• Several people milled around, neatening the area, touching up Cage’s makeup.
  — Susan Orlean, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2025
• Hydrangeas that only bloom on the current year's fresh, green growth (also referred to as new wood) should be neatened up or cut back in early spring, well before the arrival of summer.
  — Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 6 May 2026