Example Sentences

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Investors trawling for value stocks have also boosted shares of energy and materials names.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 27, 2026

Sadat, who herself has been living in Germany since Taliban authorities retook power in 2021, said that trawling through locations outside Afghanistan was something she had been used to for a long time.

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 2026

Like many Lebou, Tall's father is a diver, plunging for fish which have drastically disappeared from Senegal's coast due to industrial trawling.

From Barron's • Feb. 6, 2026

It’s all he ever wanted to do, since he was around 12 years old and accompanied his father, a mailman and part-time shrimper, as he spent weekends trawling the marshy waters off Louisiana.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2026

I was trawling through every detail in my mind, every possible misstep, until I caught myself.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson