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Example sentences for "neat little"

  • Mrs. Mildmay rose, folded her knitting into a neat little ball, stored it away in a neat little basket, and was about to quit the room, but before she could open the door Violet had run through the conservatory again.

  • The captain rose and walked to his bureau, from the drawer of which he took a neat little revolver.

  • For months I had been habituated to my neat little bits of chop or poultry garnished with the inevitable cauliflower or potato, which seemed to be the sole possibility after the reign of green peas was over.

  • With a neat little cap, and an apron of check; Her shoes and her stockings all sound and all clean?

  • We furnished a neat little den, and I was happy.

  • Under my advice, Miles disposed of some vacant lots, and bought a neat little house, put it in thorough order, and made the best of his opportunities with Marie.

  • When I went in, I got about a forty-second squeeze of a neat little hand, and things did look so nice and clean and homelike that I had it on the end of my tongue to ask right then to camp in the place.

  • It is a neat little device, and one well worthy the notice of intending purchasers.

  • It is a neat little contrivance, nicely finished and nickel-plated.

  • We took a neat little cottage in the suburbs of the metropolis; and tranquility seemed to have been restored to us at last.

  • He had promised her that she should be the richer by a neat little bundle of fat and flourishing railway stock when his happiness was secured, and he was not going to break his promise.

  • Lucy followed with a neat little parcel, carefully rolled up; and Bessy followed, with a hand in one of her pockets, and a smile on her face, though she looked red and rather confused.

  • John Trueman's cottage was a neat little place, standing in a garden, adorned with pinks and rosemary and southernwood.

  • She ran out of the room, and a minute afterwards came back with a neat little packet in her hand.

  • A neat little church, capable of holding nearly three hundred persons, with a school and parsonage.

  • Jimmie had his camera over his back and a jointed steel rod done up in a neat little case in his hands, on his feet long rubber boots.

  • The first thing the queen does is to lay her eggs in a neat little pile.

  • She has strong jaws, and with these she cuts out a neat little circle of salty crust.

  • First call with me at this house," said Dallas, stopping before the door of a neat little mansion.

  • Well, on the lower floor there is a neat little room, that is always kept perfectly trim and tidy; it belongs to a young couple who have nothing beyond the husband's day wages to live on.

  • It was near the close of a pleasant Saturday afternoon that I drew up my weary horse in front of a neat little dwelling in the village of N.

  • It is a neat little six-roomed house, with preternaturally green palings enclosing about sixty square feet of bright yellow gravel, adorned by a row of whitewashed shells.

  • Chrysanthemums and china-asters beautified Mr. Sheldon's neat little garden, and the plate-glass windows of his house shone with all their wonted radiance.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "neat little" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    baked custard; before very; clinical observation; closer union; complaint against; complete absence; cool oven; deductive science; finished speaking; her way; human acts; large clusters; long ago; myght have; neat cattle; neat little; neath the; perpetual exile; poem called; recovered himself; replied she; terminal clusters; through natural; vast multitude