How to Use dragnet in a Sentence

dragnet

noun

• Nine suspects were caught in the police dragnet.
• To save her from the Nazi dragnet, her parents gave her up at the age of 4 months.
  — Bart Barnes, BostonGlobe.com, 13 July 2019
• Muñoz feared her husband would get caught in the dragnet.
  — Andrea Castillo, Los Angeles Times, 4 Jan. 2024
• El Cirujano escaped the police dragnet and has yet to be caught.
  — Danny Gold, SI.com, 23 July 2019
• Some have complained they were falsely caught up in a dragnet.
  — The Arizona Republic, 16 Jan. 2024
• For months, Wardle feared that anyone who emailed her would be pulled into the dragnet.
  — Naomi Nix, Washington Post, 24 July 2024
• The story explains why the dragnet took place, and the feds’ argument for keeping the assets.
  — Justin Ray Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 10 June 2021
• The court order is the latest salvo in Mr. Abramovich’s attempt to push back against a global dragnet on his assets in the wake of the war in Ukraine.
  — Max Colchester, WSJ, 10 Nov. 2022
• Ayala is not the first political figure to be swept up in the Jan. 6 dragnet.
  — Tom Jackman, Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2024
• There is a growing concern about the role A.I. could play in this digital dragnet.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 28 June 2022
• Equipped with a large needle, a small scraper and a knife, Gaiyan fixes the frayed and torn sections of a dragnet, a weighted net that can be drawn across a wide area.
  — The Economist, 13 Jan. 2021
• Bao Fan, a star investment banker, went missing in February and is believed to have been caught up in the dragnet.
  — Laura He, CNN, 13 Sep. 2023
• But the recent outbreaks have led to frustration and grumbling as more and more people have been caught up in the virus-control dragnet.
  — New York Times, 21 Jan. 2022
• That might have been the precise moment that the man believed to be Cunanan took his life and ended a dragnet that galvanized the nation.
  — By Frances Robles, John Lantigua and Martin Merzer, miamiherald, 2 July 2017
• As has happened with past EDD account freezes, some legitimate claimants got swept up in the dragnet.
  — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Jan. 2022
• This Times exclusive explains why the dragnet took place, and the feds’ argument for keeping the assets.
  — Laura Blasey, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2021
• For drivers caught in the state’s carceral dragnet, fines and fees imposed by the government are just one side of an extractive coin.
  — Jack McCordick, The New Republic, 13 Sep. 2023
• In recent weeks, the demonstrators have used the lasers to keep pace with a widening dragnet by authorities.
  — Jennifer Hassan, Washington Post, 1 Aug. 2019
• Most people caught in this dragnet will not be like Rudy Carcamo-Carranza.
  — Alvaro M. Bedoya, The Atlantic, 21 June 2017
• That one is courtesy of an ex-girlfriend who helped John escape a dragnet in Belize after he’d been accused of shooting his neighbor in the back of the head.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 24 Aug. 2022
• Though most caught up in the dragnet are Uighurs, the biggest ethnicity in the region, some 1.5m ethnic Kazakhs live in Xinjiang, too.
  — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
• After the shooting, police locked down an elementary school across the street and set up a perimeter, but the shooter eluded the dragnet.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 22 Dec. 2021
• A week before the latest killing spree in Hanau, German police rounded up 12 far-right extremists in a dragnet that swept across six states.
  — Can Dündar, Time, 25 Feb. 2020
• Manzo eluded the dragnet, and the freeway was later reopened, police said.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2021
• However, a few of the worst scoundrels, including Mr. Warner, managed to elude the U.S. dragnet despite the evidence amassed against him.
  — David Hirshey, WSJ, 7 June 2018
• Those advising against the use of period trackers appear to fear the worst: dragnet-style searches for anyone who was pregnant and then ceased to be.
  — New York Times, 30 June 2022
• Over the three months since Storen’s dragnet, 88 had pleaded guilty, helping both to build the government’s case and to thin the unmanageable number of defendants to 28.
  — Sasha Issenberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Sep. 2024
• Some workers in Oregon are leaving for job sites as early as 1 a.m. and staying away from check-cashing shops on payday to avoid dragnets.
  — Andrea Selsky, The Mercury News, 24 Apr. 2017
• The subway turnstile — low enough to vault, ubiquitous enough to figure in the lives of millions of New Yorkers each day — has long served as a kind of dragnet for the Police Department.
  — J. David Goodman, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2018
• Here’s the latest on the Hong Kong protests: Opposition lawmakers caught up in widening dragnet.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Nov. 2019

Last Updated: 26 Dec 2024