How do you use Trawl in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like fishnet or dragnet, plus the exact meaning.
Trawl in a sentence
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Trawl meaning
- A net or dragnet used for trawling.
- A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline.
- An exhaustive search.
Synonyms of Trawl
Using Trawl
- The main meaning on this page is: A net or dragnet used for trawling. | A long fishing line having many short lines bearing hooks attached to it; a setline. | An exhaustive search.
- Useful related words include: trawl line, fishing net, fishnet, trawl net.
- In the example corpus, trawl often appears in combinations such as: the trawl, to trawl, trawl the.
Context around Trawl
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 8 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Trawl
- In this selection, "trawl" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, further, manual, oceans, survey, industry and turns stand out and add context to how "trawl" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a further trawl back some and a manual trawl was conducted. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "trawl" sits close to words such as aapi, aarey and aberdare, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with trawl
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
File:Trawl fishermen personal flotation devices. (6 words)
They trawl their health shops or try Woollies but that’s not food. (13 words)
Fairies and goblins were believed to collect souls as they trawl the earth on Halloween night. (16 words)
There are only a few left now – that’s what happens when you trawl the seas and dump chemicals in the water – but when I was a child in County Meath in Ireland, wild salmon served with salty homemade butter and brown bread for breakfast was not unknown. (48 words)
It is not the job of the FBI, the National Security Agency, or any other part of the enormous apparatus of federal government to use intelligence intercepts to trawl for politically useful information that could be used during an election campaign. (41 words)
Cosmos Tawiah, 34, died on the spot, while crew members, Oko Sowah, 40, and Stephen Nyarko, 34, are still missing after they were knocked off the vessel into the sea by the trawl wire attached to the trawler board. (39 words)
Example sentences (19)
In a further trawl back, some financial websites were found to be still operating despite being added to the register as far back as 17 years ago.
Modern systems and technology means much of any individual's life can be found online, with clues aplenty for investigators to trawl.
The force said that to obtain the data a filter was applied to identify racial and religious strands and a manual trawl was conducted on the crime summaries.
There are only a few left now – that’s what happens when you trawl the seas and dump chemicals in the water – but when I was a child in County Meath in Ireland, wild salmon served with salty homemade butter and brown bread for breakfast was not unknown.
They used data from both an Ocean Networks Canada observatory and the Federal Fisheries and Oceans trawl survey to collect information from about 400 metres deep, covering an area of 760 square kilometres.
Trawl industry representatives say that bycatch, which the industry is required by law to discard, is not the driving force behind recent crab, salmon and halibut declines.
A quick eBay trawl turns up plenty of similar listings, so there isn't exactly a bidding war for these, indeed supply massively outstrips demand.
Fairies and goblins were believed to collect souls as they trawl the earth on Halloween night.
He said detectives will have to trawl through tens of millions of documents in order to establish whether crimes such as fraud or perverting the course of justice took place.
The trawl for pictures of local schools in years past from the Wigan Today library today alights on All Saints Primary School, Hindley.
Cosmos Tawiah, 34, died on the spot, while crew members, Oko Sowah, 40, and Stephen Nyarko, 34, are still missing after they were knocked off the vessel into the sea by the trawl wire attached to the trawler board.
It is not the job of the FBI, the National Security Agency, or any other part of the enormous apparatus of federal government to use intelligence intercepts to trawl for politically useful information that could be used during an election campaign.
The fragile habitat is immediately adjacent to economically important deep-sea trawl fisheries, the researchers reported.
The only change is that fishermen who haul between six and 12 miles from shore would have to add one fewer trap to their shortest trawl, setting the minimum at 15 traps instead of 16 per buoy line.
They trawl their health shops or try Woollies but that’s not food.
Once the first trap of the trawl is pushed into the water, one must be exceptionally careful that you don’t get tangled with the ropes.
Thousands of low-wage workers in “censorship factories” trawl the online world for forbidden content, where even a photo of an empty chair could cause big trouble.
Because of the tuna's deteriorated condition as a result of the trawl net, the fish sold for just under $5,000. citation File:TunaFish.
File:Trawl fishermen personal flotation devices.
Common combinations with trawl
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: