trawl
noun
a strong fishing net for dragging along the sea bottom.
trawled
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past participleof trawl.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof trawl.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
trawlnouna strong fishing net for dragging along the sea bottom.
Example Sentences
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“I visited libraries, I scoured the web and trawled through antiques markets looking for inspiration.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026
White and Wilkoff trawled through about 1,500 new cryptocurrencies launched during the mania of 2017-18.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
The 2016 investigation trawled 17 years of records to find out how often, and why, cash accounts on the Horizon IT system had been tampered with remotely.
From BBC ● Feb. 19, 2024
The varied spread of seafood in the trilobite’s guts led the scientists to conclude that B. incola was an opportunistic scavenger that trawled the seafloor for carcasses and anything slow enough for it to catch.
From Scientific American ● Sep. 28, 2023
In better times, fishing vessels trawled the river, but now there was little to catch, and what could be caught was better left uneaten.
From "Huntress" by Malinda Lo
