Synonym: dragnet, setline, spiller, trawl line, trawl net, trotline. Similar words: trawler, brawl, drawl, crawl, sprawl, scrawl, brawling, scrawled. Meaning: [trɔːl] 
n. 1. a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) 2. a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths. v. fish with trawlers.
n. 1. a long fishing line with many shorter lines and hooks attached to it (usually suspended between buoys) 2. a conical fishnet dragged through the water at great depths. v. fish with trawlers. 
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1. They trawl these waters for cod.
2. We did a wide trawl to find the right person to play the part.
3. I'll have to trawl through all my lecture notes again.
4. Major companies trawl the universities for potential graduate trainees.
5. You need to trawl through a lot of data to get results that are valid.
6. A quick trawl through the newspapers yielded five suitable job adverts.
6. Sentencedict.com try its best to gather and create good sentences.
7. Mark's eyes trawl the room.
8. Did I look like a hooker on the trawl?
9. Noses trawl along the formica sideboards hoovering up powder.
10. The FBI should have taken another trawl through their files.
11. At higher altitudes,(sentencedict.com) swifts trawl for them with open beaks.
12. A trawl I made through three small-ad market place papers yielded around four pages of diesel cars per 300-400 page issue.
13. Prominent campaigners are invariably selected, but the trawl also includes scientists and journalists, small shopkeepers and major supermarkets.
14. Among this lot, the emotional trawl was a bit more of a mixed bag.
15. He has to trawl through vast amounts of economic data.
16. And the trawl for tax dodgers also threw up other misdemeanours.
17. After a trawl through its shortlist, a further three prospective sites were added to the already chosen Elstow.
18. Stirling continued to trawl among acquaintances and friends for likely candidates.
19. Shrimp boats can trawl continuously for hours at a time.
20. Over 190 premises were visited during a CCTV trawl.
21. To catch ( fish ) with a trawl.
22. They trawl newspapers online and draft very longe - mails to the journalists who wrote them.
23. Based on the professional bottom trawl monitoring data in the East China Sea from 2001 to 2005, the resource status and biomass distribution of wart perch Psenopsis anomala were primarily analyzed.
24. Any trawl through the band's interviews will reveal statements that are challenging and incisive.
25. In trawl fishery, there are many factors affecting the fishing effort of which, the vessel size, actual catching time and the improvement of trawl net are the main factors.
26. Trawl net, purse seine, Fish Pond Nets, set net, light net, drag net, golf net, used for catching and breeding in deep sea, Shallow sea, Inland river, Inland Lake and used for sport net.
27. And as Mike Rowbottom reports, it seems that a trawl around the attic can turn out to be very profitable.
28. Officers worked with the yachting, boating and fishing communities in a constant trawl for information.
29. Police insist it will not be used as an excuse to trawl for small numberplates and other trivial offences.
30. The internet has made it easy for would - be journalists to trawl information and repackage news.
More similar words: trawler, brawl, drawl, crawl, sprawl, scrawl, brawling, scrawled, crawling, sprawling, urban sprawl, draw straws, straw, straw hat, last straw, straw vote, strawberry, man of straw, a man of straw, the last straw, catch at a straw, awl, pawl, bawl, shawl, bawl out, lawless, bawling, flawless, contract rate.