Sentence examples for pocket comb from inspiring English sources

Won a pocket comb, for a prize.

And he can thank his trusty pocket comb for that.

Drummond pulled out a pocket comb and neatly parted the boy's thinning hair and swept it back from his face.

A typical fare-box sleeve is usually made from a beer can and is about the size of a pocket comb.

Blotte has a moderate amount of clean, short hair--party hair, and the party sign of a pocket comb could be seen on the bookcase.

He therefore carefully spruces up his hair with a pocket comb at intervals, after first wetting it down with a water pistol.

Get out your pocket combs and primp your pompadour for this evening of rockabilly-flavored retro rock.

(The critic Lester Bangs likened the band's guitar sound to "14 pocket combs being run through a moose's dorsal").

By F. S. Pearson and Geoffrey T. Hellman The New Yorker, January 16 , 1954P. 21 A friend of ours who has a boy in his second year at a New England prep school noticed that during the first two months the bill for supplies included half a dozen pocket combs and a similar number of mechanical pencils.

Aside from the countercultural trappings of the era, the kids in Brewster live in a world frozen a decade earlier, when boys walked along railroad trestles, a switchblade in one back pocket, a comb in the other.

This may include a watch, pocket knife, comb, breath mints, gum, enough change for a snack, extra straight pins, and a pen (in your jacket pocket).