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Example sentences for: combed

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

The Counterterrorist Center located at the CIA combed its files and queried sources around the world.
One source claims that Dole actually combed through Bush's list of donors for contact names (a violation of FEC regulations).
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.
Alex Berlyne, in Front Back-axle [XIX, 3, 29], finds it beyond understanding how the Hebrew word pony (which he believes to be borrowed from ponytail ) has come to stand for fringe or bangs in the sense of hair combed forward over the forehead.
Culturebox combed the New York Public Library to find the word in the feminist-Holocaust literature, but found it nowhere.