dragnet
IPA: drˈægnɛt
noun
- (fishing) A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water.
- (law enforcement) Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects.
verb
- (fishing) To drag a net across the bottom of a body of water.
- (law enforcement) To make heightened efforts to catch a suspect.
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Examples of "dragnet" in Sentences
- Several others evaded the police dragnet.
- I watched the first episode of the new Dragnet.
- She also guest starred in episodes of Dragnet and.
- Dragnet was in there, and was pictured on the page.
- She was heard in the original radio version of Dragnet.
- It was spoof of a leading TV show of the period, 'Dragnet'.
- He sets up a dragnet and destroys the shark with an explosive capsule.
- It's like having a page for only ONE of the main characters in Dragnet.
- Suddenly a police dragnet was sweeping the streets for suspicious characters.
- Some Potawatomi had escaped the dragnet of soldiers and remained in the east.