Sentence examples for combed the beach from inspiring English sources

I ignored him, making my way down to a cove where a strange figure combed the beach.

In this instance, close to 1,000 police, fire and rescue workers from the area combed the beach, and quickly found Mr. Ichikawa's locked car, parked in a pine grove 200 yards away.

Dogs ran off the leash and a few souls brave enough to disregard the calendar combed the beach under the huge blue sky.

Dozens of people combed the beach for the bodies of their children.

Police combed the beach-side towns and found an agency where another man with a similar fake license had tried to rent a car.

Mr. Laurent, for his part, dutifully combs the beach, gathering wonderful bits of detritus from that much-mythologized moment.

Scavenging is permitted at Stratford Hall in a designated area; as others do, I spent an absurd amount of time combing the beach for souvenirs I never found.

Mr. Maas and the others began combing the beach and picking up the flotsam that had accumulated, including roof shingles, beer cans, nail-studded beams and pieces of bright blue plastic foam encrusted with barnacles.

Emergency officials -- firefighters, police officers, soldiers and divers -- were combing the beach near the crash scene late Sunday night, about a mile east of the airport, looking for survivors.

(In one scene, though, Mr. Ozon seems to concede the fire-power of youth: when an anguished Marie, in bathing suit, frantically combs the beach for her husband, she is pointedly contrasted with a naked young Aphrodite).

After I finished combing the beach for trash, put Clint Eastwood back in his pen, Lizzie and I went up the mountain on my motorcycle to Surachai's house, where his uncle Mongkhon ran an elephant-trekking business.