Sentence examples for combed the city from inspiring English sources

Throughout the spring, Lipman and others combed the city for an alternative site, reporting back to Picaro.

Security services combed the city, and it was determined that seven of the nine terrorists who had directly participated in the attacks were dead.

Open daily noon-2.30am L'Horiginal has saved the bacon of many writers and poets who have combed the city for a free place to perform.

BAGHDAD, Oct. 2 -- For a second day, U.S. and Iraqi troops combed the city of Sadah near the Syrian border for insurgents loyal to al Qaeda, witnesses and the U.S. and Iraqi militaries said Sunday.

The police in Mumbai — also known as Bombay, and home to a substantial Muslim minority — combed the city overnight and detained what the city's commissioner of police, A. N. Roy, estimated to be up to 500 people.

In the late 1960's, the two elderly men combed the city for a site that could be converted into subsidized lofts for artists to live and work in.

MARIA PERCOCO VOLA Combing the City for Her Maria Percoco Vola's relatives are still combing the city, and peering at every photograph they see of the World Trade Center attacks, looking for a sign that she made it to safety.

Combing the city's nightspots for musical accompaniment sounds energetic for a director now in his late 70s.

The SOHR said the SDF "took control of Manbij on Saturday and are combing the city in search of the last remaining jihadists".

State and city inspectors spent the week combing the city, trying to determine how much foreclosed or vacant housing was available, what could be repaired, and just how many people might truly be left without somewhere to live.

The police have more than 20 teams of investigators combing the city, officials said, and Commissioner Satyapal Singh told reporters that he expected all the suspects to be in custody soon.