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UK
/dɹˈæɡnɛt/
]
[ US /ˈdɹæɡˌnɛt/ ]
[ US /ˈdɹæɡˌnɛt/ ]
NOUN
- a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths
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a system of coordinated measures for apprehending (criminals or other individuals)
caught in the police dragnet
How To Use dragnet In A Sentence
- Carrying Cheng where to accuse to also can say is a challenge that stands to all dragnet.
- The use of fine-mesh dragnets by fishing crews, despite a ban by the Mauritian government, has caused huge damage to the barrier reef, and the banks of living coral that protect the entire coastline are dying.
- Months later, the dragnet still had not turned up the poachers who had left an indelible mark on such a severely endangered species: for the Asian elephant, the loss of five animals is grave.
- Pedestrians were also caught in the police dragnet and interviewed by officers searching for even the smallest clue that could spark a new line of inquiry.
- The police have widened their dragnet in their search for the killer.
- Subject to a massive manhunt, Tracy evaded the dragnet for a month and then set up an ambush near Bothell, WA, where he killed two more lawmen. David E.
- It's a scenario that plunges you back into the time of scratchy movies where the cons wore pyjama suits with black arrows on them and Cagney was king; back to the days of the early crime shows like The Naked City and Dragnet.
- More than three hundred teenage MexicanAmericans were arrested in the ensuing police dragnet.
- He wasn't even a protester - just a city resident who went out to a deli for some matzo ball soup and innocently walked into a police dragnet that was indiscriminately scooping up hundreds of people.
- The search was conducted more like a police dragnet than a traditional intelligence investigation.