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trawling
noun as in boating
noun as in fishing
Example Sentences
After trawling the national archives and cross referencing eye-witness accounts, family letters and war office reports, Ms Nash was able to identify these men as Sergeant Northey and Major Patrick Angier.
Restrictions on scallop dredging and prawn trawling required additional legislation which ministers promised to introduce in two stages.
In one glaring recent example, the advocacy group Oceana U.K. found evidence that the United Kingdom allows bottom trawling in many of its MPAs.
They joined dredgers trawling for scallops along the UK coastline.
He added officers were still trawling through hours of footage to build their evidence.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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