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How to use dragnet in a sentence

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When he nevertheless made a clean getaway, he made little effort to escape the massive police dragnet throughout northern Georgia.
For a movie that's about a professional, meticulous hired gun and the FBI dragnet to track him down, we see very little killing or police work.
They tried to basically spread a dragnet and see how many people they can fish out.
Miraculously, the group of 15 Indians managed to elude the dragnet that was forming and escaped with the aid of local residents.
The search was conducted more like a police dragnet than a traditional intelligence investigation.
The city fishermen use the shore seine, a huge dragnet attached to a three-kilometre long rope to catch species like the small stolephorus fish.
Ecology Action Centre challenges the Department of Fisheries and Oceans on dragnet fishing policy.
Whole towns could be surrounded, or a mile-wide dragnet thrown over an area which contained sporting arenas.
When that wave of traps produced woodwasps, the dragnet was extended to a 50-mile and then a 70-mile radius.
They were arrested at Cairo's Ramses Square on August 16, caught up in the dragnet of a mass arrest carried out by the military.
But despite their successes, Aykroyd and Hanks' rap duet at the end of their 1987 film dragnet was not exactly a plus.
To avoid the police dragnet, he did not use a mobile telephone.
The key provisions of the Patriot Act that deem the federal government's dragnet surveillance legal are set to expire on 1 June.
We have gas flares in Alberta, clear-cut logging in B. C., and dragnet fishing of the seas in B. C. and the Maritimes.
The rest is nothing but gratuitous and totally unfounded allegations, which are part of a vast and totally pointless political dragnet.
Thousands were stopped for questioning and more than 400 arrested for mainly minor misdemeanours during a six-month police dragnet of the local area.
An RSPCA dragnet of the area surrounding the pond failed to locate the beast, and the organisation warned locals to keep their eyes peeled for rogue reptiles.
Police threw a dragnet around the city and caught the two thugs.
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.
There are stretches in dragnet Nation that are too obviously designed to scare, and parts feel paranoid.
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He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet.
Every time he did anything the terrorists in the vicinity were gathered in by the police dragnet, and many of them were executed.
Christopher Plummer and Dabney Coleman also star, with original DRAGNET series favorite Harry Mogran reprising his role as Bill Gannon.
This contract involves the purchase of a computer cluster for the purpose of Dragnet project.
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