How to Use trawler in a Sentence

trawler

noun

• The trawler left from the Libyan port city of Tobruk on June 8.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
• Aboard cramped private trawlers, the monitors record the health of fish and of the sea.
  — Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 27 Sep. 2023
• Read Next Deep-sea creature — able to glow in the dark — caught by trawlers.
  — Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
• On the surface, trawlers hauled in their fishing nets — and caught a new species.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
• And at the time, Soviet trawlers were prowling the area.
  — John Metcalfe, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2024
• It’s harder to get our biggest trawlers in and out of the harbor.
  — Liz Alderman, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2019
• America’s Finest, a brand-new 264-foot fishing trawler, ought to be the pride of the fleet.
  — Colin Grabow, WSJ, 29 Apr. 2018
• Sofia arrives in the morning and brings him to an old, tiny fishing trawler on the dock.
  — Paul Yoon, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2021
• Even so, a little boat might catch in a year what a trawler can take in less than two days.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
• Dyson's trawler had a 4-foot-wide gash on its port side and debris littered the deck.
  — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2020
• The trawler sits low in the water, its deck laden with hundreds of horseshoe crabs.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• Two RHIBs launched off the fantail and pulled alongside the burning trawler.
  — Elliot Ackerman, Wired, 26 Jan. 2021
• The Greek Coast Guard said one of its boats reached the location of the distressed trawler during the evening of June 13.
  — Camilo Montoya-Galvez, CBS News, 30 June 2023
• The other appears to have been against the MV Willie Joe trawler, but that case was settled in 2022.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Europe, 5 June 2024
• From the video, the kid looks like a 70-pound halibut sliding over the gunwale of a trawler’s slippery deck.
  — Patrick May, The Mercury News, 30 May 2017
• Rough seas also led to the rescue of a shrimp trawler in danger of sinking off the coast of Texas.
  — Kevin McGill, chicagotribune.com, 22 June 2017
• The trawler man still struggles to find a market for his groundfish.
  — Tara Duggan, SFChronicle.com, 14 Sep. 2019
• There’s no tracking system for all these trollers and trawlers.
  — Winston Ross, Newsweek, 23 May 2017
• Rana said that his compatriot who lived in Libya was the owner of the trawler.
  — Demetris Nellas, ajc, 18 June 2023
• It was hand-forged for an old British man-of-war, and a trawler hauled it up from the seabed of the English Channel, a stone’s throw from here.
  — Joshua Levine, Smithsonian, 19 Apr. 2018
• The fossil jaw bone (above), found in 2000 by a trawler in the North Sea, is extremely rare—and puzzling.
  — Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 19 Oct. 2017
• The Post’s analysis shows the trawler drifting in the direction of the current.
  — Claire Parker, Washington Post, 5 July 2023
• For instance, fishing trawlers tend to track back and forth in transects.
  — National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2017
• Climb aboard the Almost Heaven, which is somewhere between a trawler and a yacht, big and boxy.
  — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021
• The boat that was set to take them to a larger fishing trawler bound for Indonesia had left.
  — Rebecca Tan, Washington Post, 7 Apr. 2023
• As of Sunday, Haddock and Bella were traveling with the crew on the trawler back to land.
  — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 17 July 2023
• Wearing life jackets, the survivors were then moved to the deck of what appeared to be a fishing trawler.
  — Vincent Thian, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2018
• In the cold waters of the North Sea, trawlers catch all manner of unintended things.
  — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 15 June 2017
• Kepler came along like a trawler, scooping up new worlds thousands at a time.
  — Kimberly Cartier, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
• Virgin is seeking an order for the sale of the trawler if necessary, Irish publications reported.
  — Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune Europe, 5 June 2024

Last Updated: 13 Sep 2024