- present participle of trawl.
trawling
Example Sentences
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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
Hours of trawling through the literature seemed to confirm that no-one else had known what this little seaweed that lived on maerl was either.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
While this is by far the largest whale graveyard yet found, fossils found during trawling suggest there could be others off South Africa, the Iberian peninsula and the Crozet islands, said the study.
From Barron's ● Jun. 10, 2026
They were more like present-day privileged Western students trawling the developing world and writing blogs about how the world’s poorest people enabled them to broaden their horizons.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
