trawling
Example Sentences
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After trawling through dozens of applications, the hunt is over: an Australian animal welfare group has found a successor to a hero hound credited with saving more than 100 koalas from fires.
From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026
Global pharmaceutical companies are now trawling for promising drugs from labs in biotech centers such as Shanghai and Suzhou.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
If you’re no longer a teenager but still don’t want to spend your whole night trawling Instagram, my Slate colleagues suggest:
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2026
"Where the government makes an announcement and you have to spend days trawling websites to try to find out what they mean," he told the BBC.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026
I was trawling through every detail in my mind, every possible misstep, until I caught myself.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
