Neaten in a sentence as a verb

Buy a roll of Velcro, the stuff we use in data centres to neaten cables.

Mundanely, they neaten up the store to meet the exacting vision of the maniacal CEO.

Some are edited or paraphrased to sharpen or neaten the original.

Instead of the natural untidy beauty of an ancient forest, or wild meadow, with random animal and human tracks through it, we pave, concrete and "neaten".

But once you start to want to make something bigger than a couple of seconds, things get complicated; you have to plan a script, wrangle multiple scenes, start involving other people to break up the process in various ways - inbetweeners fill in frames between what the lead animator draws, cleanup artists neaten things up, colorists, background painters, 3D people for stuff that's a pain to do by hand... plus all the non-drawing support people.

Neaten definitions

verb

put (things or places) in order; "Tidy up your room!"

See also: tidy straighten

verb

care for one's external appearance; "He is always well-groomed"

See also: groom