Verb (used with object) : She was slowly combing her fingers through her hair. ,She combed the snarls out of her hair. They combed the cowards from the group. ,He combed the files for the missing letter. ,High winds combed the seacoast.    From Dictionary.com. 

Feeling myself more fevered than hungry, I determined on spending the time in combing my hair and washing my face and hands with vinegar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

There was a good deal of waste in this combing, that is, large clumps of tangled wool called noil were combed out.    From Wordnik.com.  [Home Life in Colonial Days] Reference

They clip from six to seven pounds of wool, suitable for combing, which is longer than South Down wool, but less fine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887] Reference

I have been kind of combing through different newspapers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Aug 3, 2007] Reference

I went "combing" through lots of research to get to the "roots" of the mess.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2007] Reference

The animals clean themselves by licking their sides and apparently by "combing" their fur with their teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [15 Agouti] Reference

We're still kind of combing through to see what are all of these little things and how are you going to feel it first.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jan 29, 2009] Reference

I think the interesting thing is that after the Liberation, there was a kind of combing of local officials and mayors.    From Wordnik.com.  [“Neither Heroes nor Villains”] Reference

In most processes of carding the fibers are subjected to a "combing" principle, and the aim is to lay the fibers parallel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades] Reference

I don't think my moustache quite warrants a combing which is a real, real shame.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News - Home] Reference

And they don't show any of the fine horizontal black lines often called 'combing'.    From Wordnik.com.  [VideoHelp.com Forum] Reference

During this brief visit, his wife may attend to his own needs, such as combing his hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [arabnews - frontpage] Reference

I'm assuming what you're seeing is "combing", i.e. small sections of regularly-spaced lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [VideoHelp.com Forum] Reference

Suman would have great difficulty even in performing simle day-to-day tasks such as combing her hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Headlines] Reference

If you see jagged lines where hard edges should be (called "combing" or "teeth"), the video is interlaced.    From Wordnik.com.  [iPod reviews and news of iPod-related products, including iPod nano, iPod shuffle] Reference

Don't think that would have worked if it had been an NTSC tape and, naturally, the 'combing' is still there.    From Wordnik.com.  [VideoHelp.com Forum] Reference

I have triied various capture settings - reversing the field order, delinterlacing etc but none will remove the 'combing'.    From Wordnik.com.  [VideoHelp.com Forum] Reference

The combination of pain and limited motion make activities of daily living, such as combing ones hair or fastening a bra strap, painful.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference

I was too busy looking at the girl combing her weave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dlisted - Be Very Afraid] Reference

There were no Good Humor trucks combing the neighborhood that I can remember.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Unappreciated Culinary Delight] Reference

Within hours after the blast, an FBI forensic team was already combing the wreckage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Constructing A Trail To The Bombers] Reference

One could be for combing the dog or helping to fold laundry or helping to unload groceries.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Good of Gifts] Reference

We love combing through the D.C. blogosphere and sharing some of the entries that catch our eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Street tables, orphan blocks: DC's blogs] Reference

To ride out the rough economic environment, investors are better off combing for deals elsewhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Price of P] Reference

I check in once or twice a month and spend a half-hour combing through every two-minute masterpiece.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Truth Is Out There] Reference

After combing the medical literature, he approached Dr. Amy Heimberger, a fellow neurosurgeon at M.D.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Six-Foot Lab Rat] Reference

Burkhammer and another firefighter, Brian Moravitz, were combing through debris near the impact site.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington's Heroes] Reference

Agents were combing tracts of public land in the remote stretches of Fresno, Madera and Tulare counties.    From Wordnik.com.  [1.7 BILLION Dollar Pot Bust In Central California] Reference

Now they've developed a new tactic: combing through sentencing records of judges confirmed by the Senate.    From Wordnik.com.  [Talk Tough And Carry A Nightstick] Reference

Ask anyone who has struggled with a 1040 if combing tax law is off-putting, and you'll get a resounding 'YES!'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bylines] Reference

On Wednesday morning, federal investigators began combing the yard with a metal detector, looking for shell casings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Descent Into Evil] Reference

We could and would spend as much as a half an hour in a store the size of a large bedroom, combing through every bin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Binky Philips: Record Shopping During a Riot] Reference

Sheidlower stresses that the changes were based on findings made combing through British, not American, published texts.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Farewell to Hyphens] Reference

After combing Chicago for three days, the cops found Robert under a railroad viaduct, face down in dirt and broken glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death Of A Child Criminal] Reference

My husband, other children and I searched for three frantic hours, combing the streets, talking to friends and schoolmates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Abusing The Rights Of Parents] Reference

For several weeks, prospective students rushed from college to college desperately combing admission lists for their names.    From Wordnik.com.  [When More Is Worse] Reference

And in combing through the blood samples, the researchers discovered four strains of SIV that had never been spotted before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breeding Grounds] Reference

Brown declined to discuss specific plans for the ads, but his team is combing Bill Clinton's record for a Horton-like issue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here We Go Again] Reference