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dragnet

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Dragnet is a 1954 American crime film directed by Jack Webb and written by Richard L. Breen . The film stars Webb, Ben Alexander , Richard Boone , Ann Robinson , Stacy Harris , Virginia Gregg and Vic Perrin . The film was adapted from the radio series of ...

Usage examples of dragnet.

Though the process might be delayed, eventually the dragnet would close in an effort to ensnare the missing slayer: Shakes Niefan.

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.

Hostility toward the Deryni Ansel increased dramatically after the receipt of his letter, and several members of the Council even suggested that the Ramos Statutes should be tightened even more and dragnets put out to find the impudent Ansel and finish him, once and for all.

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.

He grinned, hearing in his mind the first nine notes of the Dragnet theme song.