dragnet

Example Sentences

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At least two American citizens were caught up in the dragnet — a security guard headed to work at Glass House and a philosophy professor at Cal State Channel Islands who was protesting the raid.

From Los Angeles Times

It’s hard for them to imagine how a dragnet of that size could pause to consider the merits of individual cases.

From Los Angeles Times

A statewide dragnet for organizers from the Industrial Workers of the World, or Wobblies, ensued, followed by hundreds of arrests.

From Los Angeles Times

The dragnet has also ensnared hundreds of P.T.I. supporters who have been detained.

From New York Times

Louis Lépine’s international dragnet—the trains stopped in Belgium, the Kaiser Wilhelm II searched in New York—had been for nothing.

From Literature