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Example sentences for: combed

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One source claims that Dole actually combed through Bush's list of donors for contact names (a violation of FEC regulations).
In this case, there's a good reason to buy American: Most Asian fleece has been napped, but it hasn't been combed or sheared.
All day, I combed sports Web sites for a rumor, a hint, a tea leaf to read.
I hope I am not being "shrill" in pointing out that this journal is readily available in the New York Public Library, which Shulevitz claims to have combed.
Holed up in his squalid attic studio in Montmartre (models complained of the dust, but Degas believed that sweeping just moved the dust around), Degas narrowed his subject matter to a few recurrent motifs--women bathing, having their hair combed, and dancing--while at the same time experimenting with a remarkable range of techniques and media (photography, tracing paper, lurid color combinations).