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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).
Culturebox combed the New York Public Library to find the word in the feminist-Holocaust literature, but found it nowhere.
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).
The Counterterrorist Center located at the CIA combed its files and queried sources around the world.