Dragnets is an English word. Below you'll find 2 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Dragnets meaning
plural of dragnet
Using Dragnets
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of dragnet
Context around Dragnets
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 0 start, 1 middle, 1 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Dragnets
- In this selection, "dragnets" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 31.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, surveillance stand out and add context to how "dragnets" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include intelligence surveillance dragnets under laws and nets and dragnets. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "dragnets" sits close to words such as aabc, aacr and aacsb, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with dragnets
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
He had staffers illegally unmask names and illegally leak conversations of innocent American political opponents caught up in intelligence surveillance dragnets under laws that were designed to protect them. (29 words)
The human activities which damage seagrass beds include waste water discharge from coastal industry, shrimp farms and other forms of coastal development, as well as trawling and the use of push nets and dragnets. (34 words)
The human activities which damage seagrass beds include waste water discharge from coastal industry, shrimp farms and other forms of coastal development, as well as trawling and the use of push nets and dragnets. (34 words)
He had staffers illegally unmask names and illegally leak conversations of innocent American political opponents caught up in intelligence surveillance dragnets under laws that were designed to protect them. (29 words)
Example sentences (2)
He had staffers illegally unmask names and illegally leak conversations of innocent American political opponents caught up in intelligence surveillance dragnets under laws that were designed to protect them.
The human activities which damage seagrass beds include waste water discharge from coastal industry, shrimp farms and other forms of coastal development, as well as trawling and the use of push nets and dragnets.