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Comber is an English word. Below you'll find 6 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.

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Comber in a sentence

Related words

Comber | Combs | Comb | Combing | Combed | Combermere | Comberton | Combes

Comber meaning

  1. A person who combs wool, etc.
  2. A machine that combs wool, etc.
  3. A long, curving wave breaking on the shore.

Using Comber

  • The main meaning on this page is: A person who combs wool, etc. | A machine that combs wool, etc. | A long, curving wave breaking on the shore.
  • In the example corpus, comber often appears in combinations such as: from comber, the comber.

Context around Comber

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 24.2 words
  • Position in the sentence: 2 start, 3 middle, 1 end
  • Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

police 1×

Often after:

explorers 1× road 1× group 1×

Sentence patterns with Comber

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

14 from comber explorers travis 1× deeds of comber group nielsen 1× moved to comber where he 1× of police comber and officer 1× on the comber road 1× t j comber to mission 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

another article told 1× heidi mckay 14 1× in the early 1× letter from t 1× nawaz also remarked 1× sinclair armstrong grew 1×

Common sentence endings:

for ten years 1× january 5 2017 1× of a hat 1× park college oxford 1× the back seat 1× the comber road 1×

Words around Comber

Just before it in the word index:

combed 90 combe 20 combatting 91 combatted 8 combattants 2 combats 44

Just after it in the word index:

combermere 4 comberton 3 combes 2 combet 5 combi 8 combie 2

Similar in corpus frequency:

aaba 10 aafc 10 aaib 10 aalbers 10 abbate 10 abbesses 10

Corpus analysis for Comber

  • In this selection, "comber" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, police, explorers, road and group stand out and add context to how "comber" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include 14 from comber explorers travis and deeds of comber group nielsen. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "comber" sits close to words such as aaba, aafc and aaib, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with comber

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

In the early hours of 1 June 2021 a crashed black BMW was found abandoned on the Comber Road. (19 words)

Nawaz also remarked that Jeremy Freeman had verified trust deeds of Comber group, Nielsen and Nescoll on January 5, 2017. (20 words)

Letter from T. J. Comber to Mission Secretary Baynes 4.07.1882, Angus Library and Archive, Regent's Park College, Oxford. (21 words)

Longer example sentences

Heidi McKay,14, from Comber Explorers, Travis Morton, 17, from Hydra Explorers in Bangor in County Down and Lucas Carswell, 17, from 51st Belfast Explorers had their names picked out of a hat. (33 words)

Another article told how Chief of Police Comber and Officer Earle Coleman pulled over a suspiciously slow-moving car, finding 15 gallons of “moon” in the back seat. (28 words)

Sinclair Armstrong grew up in Stewartstown, and when he got married he moved to Comber, where he worked on a farm for ten years. (24 words)

Example sentences (6)

Heidi McKay,14, from Comber Explorers, Travis Morton, 17, from Hydra Explorers in Bangor in County Down and Lucas Carswell, 17, from 51st Belfast Explorers had their names picked out of a hat.

In the early hours of 1 June 2021 a crashed black BMW was found abandoned on the Comber Road.

Sinclair Armstrong grew up in Stewartstown, and when he got married he moved to Comber, where he worked on a farm for ten years.

Another article told how Chief of Police Comber and Officer Earle Coleman pulled over a suspiciously slow-moving car, finding 15 gallons of “moon” in the back seat.

Nawaz also remarked that Jeremy Freeman had verified trust deeds of Comber group, Nielsen and Nescoll on January 5, 2017.

Letter from T. J. Comber to Mission Secretary Baynes 4.07.1882, Angus Library and Archive, Regent's Park College, Oxford.

Common combinations with comber

These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:

Frequently asked questions

How do you use "comber" in a sentence?
An example: "Heidi McKay,14, from Comber Explorers, Travis Morton, 17, from Hydra Explorers in Bangor in County Down and Lucas Carswell, 17, from 51st Belfast Explorers had their names picked out of a hat." This page contains 6 example sentences with the word "comber" from authentic English texts.
What does "comber" mean?
Comber means: A person who combs wool, etc.
How many example sentences with "comber" are there?
Voorbeeldzinnen.info contains 6 example sentences with "comber", drawn from a database of millions of English sentences.