The lawns were tiny with little grass, but the dirt was neatly swept.

Her blond hair was swept back neatly into a tortoiseshell clip.

Then they walked back over her neatly swept yard and, saying goodbye to Mma Tsbago, they climbed into the van and drove off.

She jumped onto the neatly swept porch, trailing dust and gravel in her wake, rang the doorbell with no perceptible effect, and then banged on the screen impatiently.

And, Kirby was beginning to realize, the whole tribe of heretics had been swept neatly into Vorst's pocket.

So, as we stumble through the early days of 2011, two economic and environmentally shattering issues are being neatly swept under the carpet.

The front alcove was neatly swept, and there was the odor of food in the air that he'd missed around the house for weeks.

The unmade road here was always swept neatly and tidily; during the rainy seasons the mud was washed carefully away and in the winter it was kept free from snow.

Neatly swept piles of shards of glass from car windows lay on both sides of the road.

The floor was neatly swept, but a pleasantly nostalgic odor of sawdust hung in the air.