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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The lake was trawled for a second day on Sunday and a discarded backpack found nearby contained a jacket and some banknotes from the board game Monopoly but no gun, sources told CBS.
From BBC ● Dec. 9, 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
To firm up the link, epidemiologists trawled 20 years of medical records for more than 10 million U.S. military recruits and analyzed some of their stored blood samples.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 14, 2022
He trawled for jobs on the Chicago Tribune site, on computer mailing lists and on geek employment agency websites.
From "Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho" by Jon Katz
