dragnet's Usage Examples:

The dragnet extended to Birmingham where one man was arrested under terror laws but later released uncharged.

However, this wasn't merely some Gunsmoke rip-off, anymore than Man From Uncle was close kin to Dragnet.

One attempt at calling a general strike was effectively suppressed by members of the SAW and ANC who had escaped the police dragnet.

The case concerns a 2002 DNA dragnet initiated by police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana during a serial rape-murder investigation.

dragnet testing for drugs.

The police campaign against it drew a dragnet through the UK anarchist community.

In addition to "Brixton", Simonon also wrote "The Crooked Beat" on Sandinista! and "Red Angel Dragnet" on Combat Rock.

The watch was seen in the movie Dragnet, where Tom Hanks wore it.

She stayed on the soap for two years, before going on to starring on the TV show L.A. Dragnet (2003), the film Snitch'd (2003), and the 2004 made-for-TV movie called The Dead Will Tell.

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!

Synonyms:

system, scheme,

Antonyms:

spoils system, merit system, truth,