Example Sentences

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Armed with a list of 1,000 questions, he will be combing the countryside, quizzing housewives, laborers, farmers, bankers, fisherfolk.

From Time Magazine Archive

Captain Teach will be combing the burrs from his grand beard when he boards his ship again.

From Blackbeard: Buccaneer by Schoonover, Frank Earle