Example sentences for: comb

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

  • Not even Chatterbox has the patience to comb through every environmental vote in the House and Senate between 1977 and 1992.

  • Superimposed against a blue sky, Magritte's comb seems to be lying on clouds of shaving cream--a painter's dream--while the match lies asleep on the floor.

  • If food is found 45° to the right of the sun's direction, the waggle run will be oriented 45° to the right of vertical on the comb (Figure 1).

  • 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”?

  • Lincoln's hair was "black, still unmixed with gray, stiff, somewhat bushy, and had apparently been acquainted with neither brush nor comb that morning, after the disarrangement of the pillow."


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