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Meanings of dragnet in English
Synonyms
Examples for "trawl"
Examples for "trawl"
1
The meshes vary in size according to the part of the trawl.
2
The trawl, formerly not much used here, is now in general use.
3
A quick trawl through college research highlights an amazing diversity of projects.
4
By September, an exhaustive trawl had come up with some CCTV footage.
5
I trawl past D's building, peer through the windows into the foyer.
1
For some reason they occasionally get caught on a trawl net.
2
Large groups of fish found the escape route in the trawl net faster than small groups, suggesting they learnt from each other, he said.
3
Ms Barry said there had been no verified deaths of Maui's dolphins in set nets or trawl nets since 2002.
4
The WWF commissioned a survey of five hundred people and found 83 percent support a ban on set and trawl nets.
5
The plan does not set a target, called for by conservation groups, to reduce the number of sea lions killed in trawling nets.
Usage of dragnet in English
1
Acton grew afraid that WhatsApp would turn into a mass surveillance dragnet.
2
A wider dragnet is required, with more testing and rigorous contact tracing.
3
So the problem with us is how to get out the dragnet.
4
The State Police have spread a dragnet, but it doesn't look hopeful.
5
Some of those caught in the dragnet are left scratching their heads.
6
Prepare for that-murdersuspect, dragnet, a crappy snapshot of you on TV.
7
Policing has come a long way from the dragnet days of the 1950s.
8
Just another surveyor, recently arrived, perhaps part of the same dragnet.
9
Izenberg was swept into the dragnet around Terminus, the self-proclaimed ultimate UNIX hacker.
10
Western-backed Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has condemned both the kidnappings and the Israeli dragnet.
11
The use of the word "dragnet" six times is really overdoing it.
12
Throw out the dragnet and once more capture the Eel.
13
His death accentuates the range of the dragnet of war.
14
It's a thoroughly modern village mentality with an international dragnet.
15
Another invalid-mysecretary-oneflounders in a dragnet of unfortunate circumstances.
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Then the authorities proceeded to throw out a fine-mesh dragnet.
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