coomb in a sentence

Examples

1. What's worse is that as Mara carries her and Luke's baby, the deadly coomb spore virus that had previously affected her returns, and threatens to kill her and the child.
2. Rose Coomb's definitive 1976 study of World War I battlefields noted that people and places were forgotten when memorial markers disappeared, as battlefields were converted into farms and bomb blast holes became fishing ponds.
3. When Huorns from Fangorn made a temporary forest in the Deeping-coomb during the finale of the Battle of Helm's Deep, they kept the Deeping-road open for the Rohirrim and their allies.
4. In this report, G . H . M . Ricketts ( then the Magistrate of Allahabad ) discusses the need for sanitation controls at the " Coomb fair " ( Kumbh Mela ) to be held in 1870.
5. The "'River Yar "'on the Isle of Wight, England, rises in a chalk coomb in St . Catherine's Down near Niton, close to the southern tip of the island.
6. In Tolkien's book, Gamling is left in charge of the forces defending Helm's Dike ( a fortification across the Deeping-coomb before the stronghold of the Hornburg defending Helm's Deep ) by command of Erkenbrand.
7. The inhabited place appears simply as " Combe ", " Coomb " or " Coombe ", meaning'short bowl-shaped valley', in documents from the 13th century onwards and on early maps.
8. This National Trust for Scotland property extends over 922 hectares and is characterised by a dramatic waterfall ( the 5th highest in the UK ), an upland loch Loch Skeen and White Coomb which rises to 821m and is one of the highest hills in Southern Scotland.
9. Tolkien occasionally used other spellings  " Deeping Coomb ", the " Coombe "  or perhaps he missed these in the proofs of " The Lord of the Rings ", but he confirmed " Deeping-coomb " as the correct spelling.
10. Tolkien occasionally used other spellings  " Deeping Coomb ", the " Coombe "  or perhaps he missed these in the proofs of " The Lord of the Rings ", but he confirmed " Deeping-coomb " as the correct spelling.