How to Use fine-tooth comb in a Sentence

fine-tooth comb

noun
  • Grab a boar bristle hairbrush or a fine-tooth comb and get scrolling.
    — Catharine Malzahn, Glamour, 2 Jan. 2026
  • In some cases, overusing a fine-tooth comb could even backfire.
    — Kathleen Ferraro, Verywell Health, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Tame flyaways with an edge-control brush or a fine-tooth comb and some styling pomade.
    — Ranyechi Udemezue, Vogue, 12 June 2026
  • Mira began absent-mindedly rolling and unrolling a fine-tooth comb through her curls.
    — Anna Wiener, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • All of us — probably the Newsoms included — will just have to wait to see if the fine-tooth combs of the feds pick up any dirt.
    — Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2026
  • All of us — probably the Newsoms included — will just have to wait to see if the fine-tooth combs of the feds pick up any dirt.
    — Anita Chabria, Mercury News, 25 June 2026
  • However, under a fine-tooth comb, the usefulness of the tools was stuck at 50% to 60%.
    — Praful Saklani, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026
  • But lately, that same fine-tooth comb has been rebranded on social media as a DIY tool for hair growth.
    — Kathleen Ferraro, Verywell Health, 14 Apr. 2026
  • This documentary is giving me a chance to go down memory lane with a fine-tooth comb, reexamining the highs and lows of my life and career.
    — Matt Grobar, Deadline, 12 Nov. 2025
  • After all, bankruptcy trustees and courts scrutinize recent credit card activity with a fine-tooth comb, looking for signs of fraud or abuse.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Follow the example of Sylvia Meagher, a divorcée who spent much of 1965 making an index for the twenty-six supplementary volumes of the Warren Report from her West Village apartment, taking a fine-tooth comb to eighteen thousand pages of hearings and exhibits about the JFK assassination.
    — Dan Piepenbring, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026

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