Sentence examples for a comb over from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a comb over" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a hairstyle where longer hair is combed over a bald or thinning area to cover it.
Example: "He decided to go for a comb over to hide his receding hairline."
Alternatives: "hairpiece" or "hair cover".

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If Mr. Bush doesn't win on Saturday, I foresee him campaigning in the Michigan primary with a comb over of thinning gray hair.

If it is too visually elegant to be scary, some arresting images include Ana's running a comb over her tongue, and an ant's crawling out her navel.

The fact that he has topped almost every poll for the Republican nomination for the past four months was always being weighed against the obvious – he's a buffoon, with a comb over as brazen, ridiculous and outlandish as his rhetoric.

I mean, it's not quite a comb over and not exactly a mullet.

Once it was good and knocked out, the next tech in line placed the animal on a set of scales, ran a comb over its back, and sealed a tuft of its fur in a manila pouch.

The doddering grandpa is sporting a comb over (when he has hair that is), his face is inexplicably red, and the poor guy walks with a cane and really doesn't have much of interest to say.

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(b) "A pit bull with a comb-over".

Korzhakov was a bearish man with a comb-over.

(No word on whether a comb-over is required).

I'd never pictured God with a comb-over.

Thein Sein is a cautious, uncharismatic man with a comb-over and wire-rimmed spectacles.

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