trawling

Example Sentences

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In the meantime, police were exploring other avenues, other suspects, hitting dead ends and trawling through mountains of CCTV.

From BBC • Jun. 3, 2026

Lancaster University researcher Francesca Jackson has been trawling through the archives to see the impact of such state visits.

From BBC • Apr. 24, 2026

Investors trawling for value stocks have also boosted shares of energy and materials names.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 27, 2026

Sadat, who herself has been living in Germany since Taliban authorities retook power in 2021, said that trawling through locations outside Afghanistan was something she had been used to for a long time.

From Barron's • Feb. 15, 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