dragnet

Example Sentences

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Still, she has legal bills to pay and has grown more frustrated at being ensnared by the state’s Medicaid dragnet.

From Seattle Times

Thousands of people have been arrested, many more were removed from their public jobs, and others felt they had no choice but to leave the country before they were caught up in the president’s dragnet.

From New York Times

Tanya, a mother of three in Shanghai who declined to provide her last name because of privacy concerns, was caught in the contact-tracing dragnet in early March.

From Los Angeles Times

His killer escaped through an apartment complex, eluding a police dragnet that locked down several city blocks for hours.

From Los Angeles Times

They asked a judge to approve a kind of digital dragnet — a request for Google to list all cellphones its data shows were active in an area around the crime scene.

From Washington Post