Crossword-Solution: DRAGNET
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Dragnet | n. | A net to be drawn along the bottom of a body of water, as in fishing. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| DRAGNET | anagram | DARGENT, GRANDET, GRANTED |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with DRAGNET (5)
Every time he did anything the terrorists in the vicinity were gathered in by the police dragnet, and many of them were executed.
Calloway has evidently got hold of something big, and the censor has put the screws on, or he wouldn’t have cabled in a lot of chop suey like this.” Throughout the office of the _Enterprise_ a dragnet was sent, hauling in such members of the staff as would be likely to know of a code, past or present, by reason of their wisdom, information, natural intelligence, or length of servitude.
But we are always judging, ‘that’s not well—that’s not right!’ Our luck is like water in a dragnet: you pull at it and it bulges, but when you’ve drawn it out it’s empty! That’s how it is.” And Platón shifted his seat on the straw.
Every year about the middle of March, when the season for fishing with the dragnet began, the Algonquins and Hurons married their nets to two young girls, aged six or seven.
They drew the dragnet tight, and discovered him at Nairobi! A young assistant district superintendent of police, who will rise in the service, I hope, before long, discovered a woman--who was jealous of a man--who was just then making love to the dusky damsel particularly favored by Hassan; and in that roundabout way we discovered that Hassan intended to take a trip very soon toward Mount Elgon, where, if you please, he was to take part in Professor Schillingschen's ethnological studies.
Quotes with DRAGNET (3)
Nothing can be more slightly defined than the line of demarcation between sanity and insanity ... Make the definition too narrow, it becomes meaningless; make it too wide, and the whole human race becomes involved in the dragnet. In strictness we are all mad when we give way to passion, to prejudice, to vice, to vanity; but if all the passionate, prejudiced and vain people were to be locked up as lunatics, who is to keep the key to the as
The gaping wound in America’s national security is without a doubt, the unregulated dragnet surveillance capitalists.
You'll have the right to be angry about Vault 7 only after you boycott dragnet surveillance data providers like Google, Microsoft, Skype, Facebook and Linked In. The true threat is coming from the private sector surveillance profiteers.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Onion, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 71 times in crossword archives (1943–2022).