Words similar to combing

Example sentences for: combing

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

Critics are combing through the data for errors.
..combing the country for a place secure enough to satisfy the judge, therapeutic enough to satisfy the psychiatrists and academic enough to satisfy their ambitions.
As recently as 1996, being a political obsessive was hard work: all those out-of-town newspapers and pricey newsletters to read, the gossipy long-distance phone calls to other obsessives, the endless hours spent combing campaign finance filings at the Federal Election Commission in Washington, D.C.
Some of the American states and improvement societies had even offered generous rewards for the establishment of water-powered combing and spinning, especially those based on state-of-the-art English Arkwright operations.
Several thousand men, women, and children lived on that dump--enduring the stench, the flies, and the toxic waste in order to make a living combing the garbage for scrap metal and other recyclables.