combing

How To Use combing In A Sentence

• There was a good deal of waste in this combing, that is, large clumps of tangled wool called noil were combed out. Home Life in Colonial Days
• But others of the Muscovite band were fond of congregating at this spot and hour for their lustral summer rites -- white-skinned lads and lasses, matrons and reverent elders, all in a state of Adamitic nudity, splashing about the water of this sunny cover, devouring raw fish and crabs after the manner of the fabled Ichthyophagi, laughing, kissing, saying nice things about God, and combing out each other's long tow-coloured hair. South Wind
• Not that I've outgrown New York, were that even possible, but in idle moments I have found myself combing property ads for old watermills and converted stables.
• Search and rescue teams had since been combing the area with patrols following overland the route the plane would have taken.
• Today, investigators are combing the crash sites and preparing to analyze flight data and cockpit voice recorders for vital clues.
• Organized gangs located potential victims by combing through the White Pages, and they paid for the postage with bogus stamps.
• USA TODAY spent days and nights at home, combing through cable and syndicated offerings to unearth these nuggets — some obscure, some not — to air-condition the mind on those long, hot hours in your own living room. On 'staycation'? Don't touch that dial; there's lots to watch
• Authorities were combing areas along the path of migratory birds for dead birds, and rushing any samples to laboratories for testing.
• A prodigious amount of backcombing and a preponderance of blondes created a fair few leonine manes but the effect was more catwalk queen than Lion King. Has the Little Black Dress finally fallen out of fashion?
• Although a group led by the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization (BFRO) started combing the woods around Marquette on Thursday for signs of Sasquatch, they may be looking at the wrong end of Michigan for the fabled hairy hominoid. Archive 2007-07-15