Meanings of weave a net in English

The words were silky, but Robert saw that they were intended to weave a net.

Threadlike, wavering gleams of ruby, pearl, and sapphire seemed to weave a net upon them.

You sit like a big spider and weave a net to catch men and destroy them.

A man cannot weave a net so fine that some minnow will not slip through and become leviathan!

And politicians who interpose themselves between citizen and bureaucracy weave a net for themselves that drags in votes at election time.

At the same time he is weaving a net in which Thrasymachus is finally enclosed.

Perhaps even then Wilfred with his devilish cunning was weaving a net from which my darling could not escape.

Nish and Irisis flung themselves at the lyrinx, their swords weaving a net of steel in front of them.

I'm weaving a net.

And it weaves a net of magic to bewilder the man who is repeating the words, so that he cannot win it.

They are weaving a net for thy feet, and hear you not the echo of hammering, as of men building a scaffold?

But, as a whole, Robert had assured him, it was weaving a net in which the blind boss might one day find himself entrapped.

They worked steadily and methodically, gradually weaving a net about the Germans, who were living miserably in their underground positions within the great coal center.