Example Sentences

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The Beatles may have triggered the trend; the hippies may be making a scissorless, combless and soapless travesty of it.

From Time Magazine Archive

As they drew near, moustaches began to show, and I saw that they were men, whilst walking with them were women naked to the waist, combless, and far more rough and 'manly' than their husbands.

From Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century by Adams, W. H. Davenport

It is found to be a most satisfactory stimulative feed; a food for bees in transit, either full colonies on combs, in combless packages, or for queens in mailing cages.

From Soft Candy for Bees by Gates, Dr. Burton N.

As they drew near, moustaches began to show, and I saw that they were men; whilst walking with them were women naked to the waist, combless, and far more rough and ‘manly’ than their husbands. 

From The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands by Anonymous