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:

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.
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.
When the food arrives, a young intern or production assistant is charged with combing through it to remove any errant nuts; then he or she has to swaddle the chicken in paper towels and squeeze out any excess oil."
) for two reasons: First, obviously, is so that the customer will spend more time combing over the materials and is therefore more likely to order one of their magazines.
The gestures of the two women, an attendant combing the long coil of her mistress's hair, have a ritualized simplicity.