VERB
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smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb
comb your hair before dinner
comb the wool -
remove unwanted elements
The new law weeds out the old inequities
The company weeded out the incompetent people
How To Use comb out In A Sentence
- Each morning, under strict direction, my mother would comb out my hair and wind it into coils on either side of my head. Times, Sunday Times
- One way to do this is to comb out the dead leaves with a garden rake. The Sun
- Hence, we must re-investigate the value of narrative classics of Chinese contemporary literature, comb out problems in them to better the construction of classics of contemporary literature.
- Typically, layoffs comb out the young, eager employees and leave behind the deadwood-in jobs they neither know nor want.
- ‘Heckling’ then was a method of firing off questions designed to tease or comb out truths that politicians might wish to conceal or avoid.
- Five minutes later he took off his hat, pulled a comb out of his pocket, dipped it in a glass of vodka and orange on the table, stood up and then combed his hair in the mirror over the fireplace.
- She pulled a comb out of her pocket and started to brush my hair.
- Each morning, under strict direction, my mother would comb out my hair and wind it into coils on either side of my head. Times, Sunday Times
