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    1. She was going to shower and comb out her hair, but he had been out in the lake and resting down at the beach for over an hour


    2. ’ He said, pondering the question as he runs a comb absentmindedly through his hair


    3. Not that there’s a lot left on top now … just like his father! At least he doesn’t comb a few strands over the top like some men do


    4. Bathing and dressing took a little longer than usual; the simple act of drawing a comb through her long dark hair more troublesome and the plaiting more fiddly


    5. There was also the hot comb and if that was


    6. Once daylight returned he used the scope and several remotes to comb the whole area Alan could have run to by that time


    7. ‘Did you sleep okay?’ I asked as he quickly washes his face and runs a comb through his hair


    8. comb that only the very wealthy can afford it


    9. comb through her hair


    10. has her way, she will soak my hair in a gallon of oil and then comb

    11. It took us a while to comb through the boxes, because Maye had insisted on keeping almost everything from my parents’ estate


    12. She turned away from the pond, then used her fingers to comb out the wet tangles of her hair


    13. He doesn't care to comb his hair,


    14. the ground, having rapidly re-pocketed her comb and retied her hair


    15. Five year old Veronica sat cross legged on the sunny tiles arranging her doll’s horsehair tresses with a pretty little comb made out of ivory


    16. “Where the hell did you get that from you lovely boy?” I gave it to him and he examined it like a nit nurse going through a child’s head with her comb


    17. “I’ve got to go comb my hair


    18. They would start at the front with a number one comb shave and off everything until you had no hair and looked like a convict


    19. Never mind, she’d get Edna a nice cup of tea and help her wash and comb her hair


    20. I wanted my own comb, my own toothbrush

    21. “Now I gotcha!” He ran his fingers as a comb to unsnarl his beard and hair


    22. His Nicaraguan Embassy credentials didn’t impress the police in the slightest; they went through the car with a fine-tooth comb, even removing the spare


    23. She was running a comb through her hair, which was maybe a foot long when properly combed out


    24. I got in the shower, took a long shower, got out and toweled off, combed my hair with a tortoise shell comb there, kept the towel wrapped around me, and went back to the


    25. I picture my mother standing behind me with a comb and a pair of scissors, faintly smiling as she trims my hair, and I want to scream rather than insult her like this


    26. They do not lift, not even for an instant, as she runs a comb through my hair


    27. He ran a comb through his wet hair, tossed the towel to the floor and slid into bed


    28. And comb her hair


    29. He reached for his comb and stroked his bonnet back into


    30. 20 And he said to her, How beautiful and pleasing are my words when I speak the praise of my God and his glory; and she said to him, How very beautiful is the hair of your head, note the golden comb which is in the house, take it I pray you, and curl the hair of your head

    31. I took a moment to comb my hair with my fingers to try to muster up the courage to approach him


    32. He took her comb and brushed his grey hair, or what was left of it


    33. she’d have to find a restroom to comb it out, but for now she was


    34. He was tall, obese, had a stupid looking comb over, and drank far too much gin


    35. She couldn’t get a comb through it, so she had to


    36. They went through the rooms of the house with a fine-toothed comb


    37. 20 And he said to her How beautiful and pleasing are my words when I speak the praise of my God and his glory; and she said to him How very beautiful is the hair of your head note the golden comb which is in the house take it I pray you and curl the hair of your head


    38. Lifting her head from his lap and standing up, she said, "I comb my hair every morning and, every bath-day, I soak it in a potion made from magic plants


    39. "I usually can't get a comb through my tangles," Halfdan said, gesturing at his puffed-out mass of black curls


    40. On it was a steel-toothed comb with an oak-wood handle

    41. The handle of the comb was sharp enough to use to hurt


    42. She held the teeth of the comb in her small hand, with the handle sticking down


    43. She pulled the comb back and stabbed down again, this time plunging the sharp handle deep into a rolling eye


    44. "Mother Mary, forgive me," Leoba said, dropping the comb, covering her face with both hands, sobbing warm tears into her small, wet hands


    45. Celia told her that she was on her way up and Lorna quickly threw on her clothes and ran a comb through her short curly hair


    46. "Okay, contact the station and tell them their security teams need to carefully comb the area where the fight occurred


    47. water and anti-lice solution while I used a very fine comb to comb the pests and their eggs out


    48. Without a word, Zoe picked up the hairbrush and began to comb Eva’s long, dark, silky tresses


    49. Burley reviewed the manuscript several times, went through it with a fine-tooth comb and came up with many helpful suggestions


    50. She was madly straightening her dirty T-shirt, trying to comb the loose hair out of her face














































    1. Nonsense; he was well-dressed and his hair was nicely combed; he had not gone swimming


    2. used whatever soap was handy and combed my hair as if she to stay as close to natural as possible


    3. He brushed his teeth and gargled; then combed his hair and tied it back


    4. This Greek sea was where the Nereids played, maidens of great beauty, who combed their flowing hair and sang songs of such sweetness that no man who heard them could resist their spells


    5. As well as the instruments themselves, she combed his sensory scene generators, as well as those that the other people present had been using at the time


    6. With his wardrobe for the evening prepared, he combed his hair, checked his reflection for any necessary grooming, then he crossed the hall to the lavatory to complete his activities


    7. his tie, sucked the crimson snot back up his nose and combed the long wild hairs of


    8. Returning to the room, she combed out her wet hair, and applied a brisk application of mascara before he entered the room with the drier


    9. which I’m sure he combed in front of a mirror for at least an hour


    10. helicopter dropped back down to its wave-skimming position and combed the

    11. her to his room at the Inn, where she combed and


    12. He turned and saw Jonah Dillard stepping out of a black car, dressed appropriately for the occasion, his short white hair combed and slightly damp


    13. He looked to be about fifteen, had blond, quite long hair that was fairly well combed, and wore faded jeans with a faded shirt that was open in front


    14. I hid myself, and, using the spyglass, I combed the deck of the ship and the immediate inland area for any signs 168


    15. Delaying the inevitable, I combed my hair then twisted it into one long tress


    16. Despite the early hour, his uniform was pressed, his hair combed, his beard shaved, and his boots polished


    17. His lumpy head, with the exception of a swipe of long black hair combed sideways over the top, and the coke-bottle glasses as well, gleamed in the overhead fluorescent lights


    18. She has brown eyes, and her hair was puffed up, and combed out, not overly formal, or tied up in knots or a bun or anything like that


    19. The fingers of her hand combed through his hair as she rode the passion sweeping her


    20. With his dark hair combed back to slick and gleaming, he selected for the day a new brand of cologne, which he splashed on liberally, not for additional sex appeal, of which he had considerable, but because he liked the freshness it gave to his skin and the faint whiffs he caught from time to time throughout the day

    21. They searched the grounds, combed the neighborhood, checked every store and bathroom in the mall, returned to the house then drove to San Francisco de Dos Rios to do the same in her future neighborhood: nothing


    22. She was running a comb through her hair, which was maybe a foot long when properly combed out


    23. Marvin’s hair was combed to the side like a comb-over but it wasn’t a comb-over and I could tell by the way he had looked at us that we were about to get a lecture


    24. I got in the shower, took a long shower, got out and toweled off, combed my hair with a tortoise shell comb there, kept the towel wrapped around me, and went back to the


    25. She combed out her hair and decided to let it dry naturally


    26. His combed Erudite hair is tousled


    27. The great historians must have combed through mountains of material before they distilled it into what they wanted to say


    28. Elliott combed me down for it afterwards


    29. “How long has it been since you’ve seen your sister?” Joey looked in the mirror and combed his hair for the third time


    30. had, and was combed to one side

    31. perfectly combed soil, what did it mean?


    32. combed his hair back into place and peered through his spectacles


    33. I combed my hair with my fingers the way I usually did when trying to solve an unsolvable problem


    34. My oil-slicked hair, carefully combed all to one side, completed the archaic outfit


    35. She combed her hair and


    36. Tomorrow, he’d probably be back to wearing his annoying tank tops with his perfectly combed hair


    37. He looks different today with his neat, wavy hair combed back


    38. Heading into the joining bathroom, Amori brushed her teeth, and combed out her messy hair


    39. combed, and his expression was still; his spirit was elsewhere, not with


    40. Hair neatly combed back

    41. She had combed her brown-black hair back in wings on either side of her face and let the rest fall in a perfectly straight line down her back


    42. His black hair was neatly combed back, his peanut mustache twitched like a rabbit's nose sampling the air as his eyes ranged the crowd in wavering jerks


    43. Annyeke became aware of her young charge mere moments before he raced up to her, panting, his hair sticking out as if she had not that very morning combed it


    44. She barely recognized him as in the picture he was clean-shaven with his wavy black hair neatly combed


    45. His hair was combed back and his face clean-shaven


    46. "Our ships have already combed through it trying to recover the cargo, and before you ask—no, I'm not authorized to tell you what the cargo was


    47. Calvin’s head hurt and he combed a hand loosely through his tangled hair, wishing Miles would lower his voice


    48. faces and hands washed and hair combed and ready for a clean presentation when Mommy or


    49. He had natural good looks enhanced by fair tousled hair which seemed never to have been combed but always looked okay for the occasion


    50. A truck had been stolen and there was a suspect; however, no evidence could be found by the police who, with search warrants, combed through everything they could lay their hands on














































    1. In fact he was still combing thru boxes of children's wear abandoned by someone who had owned this house before Ava did


    2. Just as she takes care of her body, she takes even better care of her long, flaxen hair, combing it every morning and every night


    3. After combing and brushing the burrs out, she decided to bathe them


    4. She raised her hands, slowly dragged them across his chest, gently combing thru his chest hair with her fingers


    5. He was so energetic that he didn't mind taking machines all apart and combing the city for parts


    6. I noticed two swans across the river Avon dipping their heads in the swift flowing river obviously combing the water weed for insects


    7. She then jumped up and started combing through my closet


    8. I lull the cat into a false sense of security by combing her for twenty minutes


    9. Standing in front of the full length mirror in her long dressing gown, combing out her long, honey-golden hair, she wished it had more curl


    10. “Oh lighten up, will you!” she retorted, combing her hair with her fingers

    11. You could make a lot of money drawing bath water or combing hair for the royals


    12. He stood beside the car that Patty and Doug had sat in all day, combing his fingers through his beard, and scanned the street perpendicular to theirs where the logging company had its office


    13. “Are we going somewhere?” she asked, combing out her hair again


    14. The three of them shyly laughed until Tabitha jumped in and said, “You should have seen us girls, combing our hair, spraying our hair, lip glossing like mad, and primping and everything in our compact mirrors in the dark back seat of her mom’s car on the way here


    15. He was out combing the streets and searching for answers


    16. Pitch into us hard--we deserve a regular combing down


    17. Meredith did no combing down or pitching into


    18. A flustered Jack was busy combing his greased black hair back into place


    19. I had missed him I mused, as my hands and fingers traced the contours in his upper back, I inhaled him in deeply, the fragrance of his lemon cologne making its way up my nasal passages, combing my fingers through his smooth hair


    20. Two other thin women were combing each other‘s hair

    21. She had a curved forehead, which she hid by combing some of her hair in front on it—usually after tying her hair into a traditional bun


    22. It�s been almost exactly a year since I began attacking the subject of my own anxiety and combing through God�s Word to see what His thoughts were on the subject


    23. Afterwards, he sits on the rug with me, combing his hair with his fingers


    24. It was still too dark to see much with the binoculars but he hoped to stumble across a cave or even a barn sometime soon, because he was sure that helicopters would be combing the hills and valleys as soon as it was light enough


    25. “Well, mister, are you one of the volunteers combing the surrounding hills and forests for the woman who was lost last night?” Glad to be given an opening to explain his presence in the village, Harry nodded and took a long drink of the ice-cold beer


    26. Chronic muscle-contraction headaches can cause sore scalps—even combing one's hair can be painful


    27. It was all he could do to keep his eyes from combing her over top to bottom


    28. rest of us combing the grounds around our house for the runaway cat


    29. She cleared her throat and, after combing her graying hair into the thick plaits she wore on top of her head, came for breakfast


    30. Eva was combing her hair when Zoe entered her room

    31. bare arm, the fingers of his other hand combing through her long


    32. Robert playing with his ten watches was motionless, Jamyra combing her hair was suspended in time, but the grosses were Zack slinging snot boogers into the air


    33. In between combing the newspapers for stories that is


    34. Still on his hands and knees, he crawled toward G, but before he reached her, he sat on the floor and began combing Philip’s hair with his fingers


    35. His hand slipped between her legs and his fingers were combing the small forest of hair


    36. Nevertheless he went warily, sword in hand, his restless eyes combing the shadows from side to side, his springy tread making no sound on the sward


    37. On top of that, you should also avoid any unnecessary combing, brushing, and styling


    38. Gerard is busy all night switching photos and personal effects between the houses, and combing Paul’s place for all traces of his life story especially his laptop and wiping the whole place down thoroughly


    39. ‘Girl at the well’ is a fascinating reproduction of a girl combing her hair and gazing dreamily


    40. combing the woods for her

    41. craft as we can and keep them combing the system for intruders


    42. transit combing the ship’s data banks for everything he could find on the planets in the vicinity of Eretz where the Albert Schweitzer would likely pay visits


    43. Daily brushing and combing of the coat is very


    44. allow for collecting your thoughts, combing your hair etc, and allowing a bit of time for


    45. Also, I want our four land search teams to converge on Rome at once and be ready by noon today to start combing the city for young Heracles


    46. Under duress, Coatl allowed mother to fuss around him snipping and cutting and combing the beard, it was another argument when she came to braiding his long hair, he said only girls braided their hair, she said all Toltec warriors were proud of their braids, I never doubted for a minute that she would win the argument and of course she did


    47. � Seeing a number of wanted posters with her picture plastered on facades at a street corner, she made a point of taking off her helmet for a few seconds and combing her shoulder-length hair as a dozen civilians waiting at a bus stop looked on


    48. � He then saw Nancy, sitting on her bed and combing her hair, wearing only her bra and panties


    49. combing the island, searching to reveal my position


    50. billions of dollars combing the earth for a resource that literally fuels the world’s














































    1. Boys like me don’t fancy combs


    2. She used jeweled combs to catch the luxuriant hair on top of her head


    3. The entrance to the hall was adorned with an archway covered in hair accessories, and to the left on the inside of the hall was a table covered by a tablecloth printed with hair combs


    4. As the Beatles were the idols of adolescents a generation ago, groups such as Ice T, Tupac Shakur, Sean “Puffy” Combs, Jay-Z, or Ludacris have been the icons of what serves today’s teenagers as music


    5. Her skirts and overshirt were folded up on the bedside stool where she’d left them, and her combs remained scattered near the window


    6. Each of them had lugged along a big wooden sea-box -- the only thing, other than weapons, that they were allowed to bring on board -- holding clothes, blankets, pillows, snacks, jars of booze, combs, jewellery, face-paint, musical instruments, chess-boards and idols


    7. What was the arc like?” She rolls onto her back underneath you, belly to belly, she combs her fingers through your hair


    8. the wind combs wisps of fog-


    9. They bothered her so much to cut the rain of hair that already reached to her thighs and to make rolls with combs and braids with red ribbons that she simply shaved her head and used the hair to make wigs for the saints


    10. was painful, fairy combs are very small and the teeth very fine,

    11. In the end the task broke five combs, and


    12. We could probably find one of Grandma’s hair combs for the something old and something borrowed


    13. It’s found in ammonia, anesthetics, antihistamines, artificial limbs, artificial turf, antiseptics, aspirin, auto parts, awnings, balloons, ballpoint pens, bandages, beach umbrellas, boats, cameras, candles, car battery cases, carpets, caulking, combs, cortisones, cosmetics, crayons, credit cards, curtains, deodorants, detergents, dice, disposable diapers, dolls, dyes, eye glasses, electrical wiring insulation, faucet washers, fishing rods, fishing line, fishing lures, food preservatives, food packaging, garden hose, glue, hair coloring, hair curlers, hand lotion, hearing aids, heart valves, ink, insect repellant, insecticides, linoleum, lipstick, milk jugs, nail polish, oil filters, panty hose, perfume, petroleum jelly, rubber cement, rubbing alcohol, shampoo, shaving cream, shoes, toothpaste, trash bags, upholstery, vitamin capsules, water pipes and yarn


    14. They first called at an electrical store and Shirl studied what computers they had in stock but she drew a blank on the model she wanted, they next called at the Super Sport shop and Murray bought two air pistols and a box of darts, then onto Radio Spares were Shirl bought a soldering iron and a roll of solder, a couple of small PC boards, transistors, and various other electronic spares, now to find the right laptop, they visited half a dozen shops before Shirl found what she wanted, it was expensive but Murray assumed Shirl knew what she wanted, because he certainly didn’t, their last purchase was at a chemist were Shirl bought hair dye, combs, scissors and a packet of thin plastic throw away gloves


    15. Our lads are still there with the fine tooth combs, but the entire estate is deserted


    16. On one side of the salon was a cabinet filled with hair coloring waxes, hair sprays, brushes, combs, curlers, and blow dryers, and on another side was a cabinet overflowing with Heaven Scents perfumes, lotions, soaps and shower gels


    17. She looks in his eyes and gently combs his wavy hair with her fingers


    18. My hair was loosened, then pinned back with two ornate pearl and tourmaline combs


    19. ” He removed the combs from my hair, letting it fall in waves as he viewed my near nakedness


    20. "No, only what she has on, and the brushes and combs and towels that were used in dressing her

    21. They were the last physical remnants of a lifetime of raiding: golden statuettes, ivory combs, gemstone jewellery, an assortment of foreign coins


    22. (a) Round combs are out of fashion


    23. These examples show that hexagonal honey combs are based on


    24. “I think we can accessories your prom hairstyle with Deep’s vintage hair combs


    25. Janelle swiped the contents of the bathroom sink into her gym bag: deodorant, toothpaste, a few combs, and several other items


    26. Out in the shadows there milk-white combs careering,


    27. I mark'd the white combs where they career'd so high, curling over,


    28. "They grow on this road, Meg, so do combs and brown straw hats


    29. There was something suitable for each child that was coming, with the exception of Bert White; they had intended to include a sixpenny pocket knife for him in their purchases that evening, but as they had not been able to afford this Owen decided to give him an old set of steel paining combs which he knew the lad had often longed to possess


    30. It was there she kept her girlish treasure trove, the tortoiseshell combs, her child of Mary badge, the whiterose scent, the eyebrowleine, her alabaster pouncetbox and the ribbons to change when her things came home from the wash and there were some beautiful thoughts written in it in violet ink that she bought in Hely's of Dame Street for she felt that she too could write poetry if she could only express herself like that poem that appealed to her so deeply that she had copied out of the newspaper she found one evening round the potherbs

    31. In a room lit by a candle stuck in a bottleneck a slut combs out the tatts from the hair of a scrofulous child


    32. village selling small necessities – needles, buckles, hand mirrors, combs


    33. (Henry Flower combs his moustache and beard rapidly with a pocketcomb and gives a cow's lick to his hair


    34. I must clean the keys of the piano with milk whatll I wear shall I wear a white rose or those fairy cakes in Liptons I love the smell of a rich big shop at 7 1/2d a lb or the other ones with the cherries in them and the pinky sugar I Id a couple of lbs of those a nice plant for the middle of the table Id get that cheaper in wait wheres this I saw them not long ago I love flowers Id love to have the whole place swimming in roses God of heaven theres nothing like nature the wild mountains then the sea and the waves rushing then the beautiful country with the fields of oats and wheat and all kinds of things and all the fine cattle going about that would do your heart good to see rivers and lakes and flowers all sorts of shapes and smells and colours springing up even out of the ditches primroses and violets nature it is as for them saying theres no God I wouldnt give a snap of my two fingers for all their learning why dont they go and create something I often asked him atheists or whatever they call themselves go and wash the cobbles off themselves first then they go howling for the priest and they dying and why why because theyre afraid of hell on account of their bad conscience ah yes I know them well who was the first person in the universe before there was anybody that made it all who ah that they dont know neither do I so there you are they might as well try to stop the sun from rising tomorrow the sun shines for you he said the day we were lying among the rhododendrons on Howth head in the grey tweed suit and his straw hat the day I got him to propose to me yes first I gave him the bit of seedcake out of my mouth and it was leapyear like now yes 16 years ago my God after that long kiss I near lost my breath yes he said I was a flower of the mountain yes so we are flowers all a womans body yes that was one true thing he said in his life and the sun shines for you today yes that was why I liked him because I saw he understood or felt what a woman is and I knew I could always get round him and I gave him all the pleasure I could leading him on till he asked me to say yes and I wouldnt answer first only looked out over the sea and the sky I was thinking of so many things he didnt know of Mulvey and Mr Stanhope and Hester and father and old captain Groves and the sailors playing all birds fly and I say stoop and washing up dishes they called it on the pier and the sentry in front of the governors house with the thing round his white helmet poor devil half roasted and the Spanish girls laughing in their shawls and their tall combs and the auctions in the morning the Greeks and the jews and the Arabs and the devil knows who else from all the ends of Europe and Duke street and the fowl market all clucking outside Larby Sharons and the poor donkeys slipping half asleep and the vague fellows in the cloaks asleep in the shade on the steps and the big wheels of the carts of the bulls and the old castle thousands of years old yes and those handsome Moors all in white and turbans like kings asking you to sit down in their little bit of a shop and Ronda with the old windows of the posadas 2 glancing eyes a lattice hid for her lover to kiss the iron and the wineshops half open at night and the castanets and the night we missed the boat at Algeciras the watchman going about serene with his lamp and O that awful deepdown torrent O and the sea the sea crimson sometimes like fire and the glorious sunsets and the figtrees in the Alameda gardens yes and all the queer little streets and the pink and blue and yellow houses and the rosegardens and the jessamine and geraniums and cactuses and Gibraltar as a girl where I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red


    35. She had no clothes other than what she was wearing, and neither did Wulfric or the boys; no jewellery, ribbons, gloves or combs


    36. The facts supporting this theory he’d spent the weekend dredging up one by one: the graffiti on the tile of the 81st Street station, the exit gate like a barber’s jar of combs, the rending sound it had made as he pushed through it


    37. The Shire had seldom seen so fair a summer, or so rich an autumn: the trees were laden with apples, honey was dripping in the combs, and the corn was tall and full


    38. She looked adorable, as always, wearing a soft blue cashmere sweater dress and rhinestone combs in her curly blond hair


    39. Trays of black combs with New York Stock Exchange stamped on the side in gold letters could always be found in the Luncheon Club restroom, and it became a custom to take one each time we showed up at the exchange and stuffed our faces


    40. We are not telling how many of these combs we have

    41. The hives had glass sides so that you could see when the combs were ready, and the peristalsis writhing of the drones


    42. Todd Combs (Berkshire Hathaway)


    43. Instead of serried rows of bees sealing up every gap in the combs and keeping the brood warm, he sees the skillful complex structures of the combs, but no longer in their former state of purity


    44. Black robber bees are swiftly and stealthily prowling about the combs, and the short home bees, shriveled and listless as if they were old, creep slowly about without trying to hinder the robbers, having lost all motive and all sense of life


    45. He dreamed that he was the lord of those pretty shell combs which she wore in her hair, and he even said to himself, in confused and suppressed stammerings of voluptuousness which did not make their way to the light, that there was not a ribbon of her gown, not a mesh in her stockings, not a fold in her bodice, which was not his


    46. Five months later, Berkshire announced that Todd Combs, manager of the Castle Point Capital hedge fund, would join them as an investment manager


    47. “He combs his whiskers and rubs up his shoes and brushes his clothes


    48. Lucille wore one of those little smidgins of hats held on by inturned combs


    49. One of the combs broke loose


    50. Tegetmeier, I separated two combs, and put between them a long, thick, rectangular strip of wax: the bees instantly began to excavate minute circular pits in it; and as they deepened these little pits, they made them wider and wider until they were converted into shallow basins, appearing to the eye perfectly true or parts of a sphere, and of about the diameter of a cell






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    Synonyms for "comb"

    comb combing cockscomb coxcomb comb out disentangle ransack topknot crest tuft untangle arrange straighten dress rake scrape scour search go over

    "comb" definitions

    a flat device with narrow pointed teeth on one edge; disentangles or arranges hair


    the fleshy red crest on the head of the domestic fowl and other gallinaceous birds


    any of several tools for straightening fibers


    ciliated comb-like swimming plate of a ctenophore


    the act of drawing a comb through hair


    straighten with a comb


    search thoroughly


    smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb