Example Sentences

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In the weeks since the blaze, more than 40 lawsuits have been filed against the utility and investigators have combed Eaton Canyon for evidence of faulty equipment.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 13, 2025

Since then, groups in the Netherlands and Belgium have combed through medical records to examine outcomes of pregnant patients with these types of abnormal results.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 4, 2024

Search teams with cadaver dogs have combed through 25% of the Lahaina disaster zone from the Maui wildfires, discovering the remains of a 99th victim, but perhaps hundreds more people were unaccounted for.

From Reuters • Aug. 15, 2023

We have combed through dozens of images and pieces of footage from the capital to get a sense of how this is affecting residential areas of the city.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2023

Without noticing, Grandma Charity and I would have combed a big pile of cotton while Grandma Sylvie was busy turning it into ball thread.

From "Life Is So Good" by George Dawson