trawler

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Recent Examples of trawler They're also often unintentionally caught in fishing trawler nets. Ben Coxworth, New Atlas, 14 Jan. 2025 The 18 course tasting menu comes as a series of tiny plates, with snow crab from Norway, squid from the West coast, a bye-catch from the shrimp trawlers’ nets, and bleak roe from Lake Mälaren. Heather Farmbrough, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024 On Wednesday, trawlers dragged nets to collect the fish that were then dumped in the back of trucks. Fox News, 29 Aug. 2024 There were eight Russian fishing trawlers docked outside, housing at least six hundred Russian sailors. Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 9 Sep. 2024 See All Example Sentences for trawler
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Noun
  • Veteran tournament angler Gary Pope is 62 years old.
    Bob McNally, Outdoor Life, 28 Feb. 2025
  • The caller, who was fishing with two others, said one of the anglers had fallen into the water near the Middle Fork of the Feather River, in Mabie, about 30 miles southeast of Quincy.
    Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee, 29 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In 1855, the desk was recovered by an American whaler and Congress appropriated funding to refit the ship that the desk was on to England, as a gift to Queen Victoria.
    Greta Cross, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025
  • The novel was inspired by both his experience as a whaler and the Essex tragedy.
    Emily Blackwood, People.com, 8 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The upshot will be a mid-sized load-lugger that will hammers to 62mph in 3.6 seconds and from zero to 124mph in only 12.9 seconds, so the Europeans had better pack that luggage in snugly.
    Michael Taylor, Forbes, 22 June 2022
  • The wooden boats competed in skiff, workboat, lugger, trawler, runabout, sailboat and cruiser classes.
    Ann Benoit, NOLA.com, 27 Oct. 2017
Noun
  • Also a longtime fly fisherman, Derrick Hicks was about to leave the river after a slow day near the bridge.
    Nicole Blanchard, Idaho Statesman, 27 Feb. 2025
  • Hot Water Music was co-founded by guitarist and singer, Chuck Ragan, who is also a passionate fly fisherman.
    Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 20 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Rose’s father, Kommer, is among the few billionaires in the field, thanks to his idea of introducing standardization and modular manufacturing from the car industry to building workboats, which shorten delivery times and reduce production costs.
    Zinnia Lee, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2024
  • With little overt military value, Australia’s cheap-but-robust commercial workboats are subject to fierce debate.
    Craig Hooper, Forbes, 3 May 2023
Noun
  • The doc feature turns on Vicky a trans fisherwoman whose acceptance by her fishing village signals a new era of gender tolerance in the community.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 5 Aug. 2024
  • The diving fisherwomen of South Korea’s Jeju Island, who harvest shellfish from the seafloor without breathing equipment, were a dwindling, elderly bunch when the agency recognized them, in 2016.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • Fight started with an Alabama shrimper who was denied benefits during COVID Derek Bateman, an independent shrimper in Alabama, spent months trying to appeal after being denied benefits during the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Maureen Groppe, USA TODAY, 21 Feb. 2025
  • Using dip nets, recreational shrimpers can quickly scoop up the daily limit of five gallons of shrimp with the heads on.
    Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • This tiny neighboring island is a short ferry ride from Grand Turk and home to clean beaches and remnants of the region’s salt-producing past.
    Laura Begley Bloom, AFAR Media, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Petite Martinique can only be reached via boat from Carriacou—the quick 30-minute ferry ride is offered once or twice a day on weekdays.
    Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2025

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“Trawler.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/trawler. Accessed 15 Mar. 2025.

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