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Example sentences for: comb

How can you use “comb” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

(Britain's war with Argentina over a few barren islands, which Thatcher prosecuted with the zeal of a Churchill, has been compared to two bald men fighting over a comb.)
Not even Chatterbox has the patience to comb through every environmental vote in the House and Senate between 1977 and 1992.
They all took the surname Singh, meaning “Lion” (all Sikhs are named Singh, but not all Singhs are Sikhs), and wore a turban and kept the five K’s: kesha (uncut hair and beard), kanga (comb for their hair), kara (steel bracelet), kachha (soldier’s shorts), and kirpan (dagger).
For example, if a food source is found in the direction of the sun, the dancer will waggle ‘straight up’ the vertical comb.
Does it not seem just a little bizarre that we can make amends but never just one “amend”; that no matter how carefully we comb through history, we can never discover just one “annal”; that, sifting through the wreckage of a disaster, we can never find just one “smithereen”; and that we never contract a single “heebie-jeebie”?