Example Sentences
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Determined to avoid baggage fees for his holiday to Pisa, Benjamin Till trawled several different shops armed with a tape measure in search of the right suitcase.
From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2025
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
He trawled through message boards on sites like Facebook late at night, when it was daytime in America.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 2, 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
