Sentence examples for on a trawl from inspiring English sources

So he made up a fake rock band — Toad Licker — and distributed phony concert flyers around the city, like baited hooks on a trawl line.

He vividly remembers "going on a trawl of the Wren churches and Dickensian warehouses, when Routledge would say, 'Boys, just smell the spices, tea and coffee that once pervaded the buildings'".

Back in 1976, David took new visitors on a trawl around pre-war Tischtelefon bars – 1930s Bakelite telephones on each table allowed club patrons to flirt anonymously and make random assignations; now they've disappeared, along with their elderly clientele.

One day, on a trawl of the internet, I came across a YouTube interview with Edward Makuka Nkoloso, leader of the short-lived Zambian space programme in the 1960s.

Around a quarter of forces across the UK - 14 - were able to provide figures, based on a trawl through their incident logs.

The affect of speed through the water on the bottom contact of a trawl footrope was experimentally investigated for the poly Nor'eastern trawl, the bottom trawl used by the Alaska fisheries science center (AFSC) to conduct stock assessment surveys.

The pair set off on a trail, trawling old copies of the local newspaper and studying census and electoral roll data.

In this study we conducted twin trawls with a topless trawl towed parallel to a similar standard trawl; we tested a topless trawl design on a small trawl with a low headline height and on a larger trawl with a high headline height.

For a moment, it seemed like it would be O.K., then ice piled onto its wings as if a bricklayer had thrown it on with a trawl, and the drone hurtled toward earth.

You might think children's book illustrators would capitalise on this, but a trawl through examples from the last 50 years or so shows that, in books, children's eyes have become smaller and smaller - tiny dots are all that are needed now.

Workers were told on Thursday that a trawl for voluntary redundancies would begin next Monday.