Some police tactics

Usage examples of dragnets.

He sold everything: the house, the business, the fishing boats, the outboard motors, the dragnets, the smokehouses, and the store with its pulleys, tool boxes, and variously smelling miscellaneous wares.

For once, she was happy for the nightly dragnets that sought to evict her from the city.

From everything she'd told him, Kehrsyn had been through many such dragnets before, and, since she still possessed both hands, evidence implied that she'd always escaped clean.

Just months after the September 11 terrorist attacks, the ACLU printed and distributed a pamphlet in seven languages telling men how to legally avoid answering police who are conducting dragnets for individuals who may be in the country to disperse nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons.

I don't know how you two slip in and out of dragnets and things so easily, but for me this is a dangerous place.

Each evening, chores done -- choke-oiling the decks, tightening the standing rigging yet again to take in a few centimeters slack (mostly, I think, a figment of Soterio's imagination), and spreading dragnets to catch samples (the ocean here was barren and the nets came up empty) -- the crew not on night watch ate cold freechunk and dried fruit and drank mat fiber beer in the mess, then lay out on the deck as they had the day before, as they might the next day and for a thousand years after.