How to Use trawler in a Sentence

trawler

noun

• There’s no tracking system for all these trollers and trawlers.
  — Winston Ross, Newsweek, 23 May 2017
• The fishing grounds here are full of cod and dozens of trawlers dot the horizon.
  — David Greig september 15, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2025
• 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
• On the surface, trawlers hauled in their fishing nets — and caught a new species.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2024
• Off the coast of Malaysia, trawlers hauled in their nets and sorted through the catch.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 29 Aug. 2025
• The trawler man still struggles to find a market for his groundfish.
  — Tara Duggan, SFChronicle.com, 14 Sep. 2019
• And all of the trawlers in the gulf and in Alaska are being shut down.
  — Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Aug. 2025
• Kepler came along like a trawler, scooping up new worlds thousands at a time.
  — Kimberly Cartier, Scientific American, 1 May 2017
• For instance, fishing trawlers tend to track back and forth in transects.
  — National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2017
• The trawler sits low in the water, its deck laden with hundreds of horseshoe crabs.
  — Tim Prudente, baltimoresun.com, 31 Dec. 2020
• 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
• Sofia arrives in the morning and brings him to an old, tiny fishing trawler on the dock.
  — Paul Yoon, The Atlantic, 13 Mar. 2021
• Read Next Deep-sea creature — able to glow in the dark — caught by trawlers.
  — Daniella Segura, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
• Off the coast of southern Japan, trawlers hauled in their nets and sifted through the catch.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 22 May 2025
• But a trawler passed behind them, the roar of its engine drowning out the dull thuds of their rocks.
  — Prianka Srinivasan Matthew Abbott, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2025
• But they often get caught up in the nets of fishing trawlers hunting for tuna.
  — Washington Post, 25 Aug. 2019
• On Wednesday, trawlers dragged nets to collect the fish that were then dumped in the back of trucks.
  — Fox News, 29 Aug. 2024
• His first job out of school was on a fishing trawler, like many of his generation.
  — Washington Post, 10 Dec. 2019
• The trawler left from the Libyan port city of Tobruk on June 8.
  — Rick Noack, Washington Post, 24 June 2023
• Rana said that his compatriot who lived in Libya was the owner of the trawler.
  — Demetris Nellas, ajc, 18 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• Off the coast of Albania, trawlers hauled in their nets and began sifting through the catch.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
• 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
• But trawlers don’t typically fish in most of the area and thus were not opposed to putting it off-limits.
  — Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times, 16 Apr. 2018
• One of them is a trawler that belongs to his association, and is not the one that went missing.
  — Orange County Register, 12 Feb. 2017
• 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
• Local police said much of the diesel oil on the trawler is estimated to have burned overnight but that some oil had been found on the sea.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2019
• Climb aboard the Almost Heaven, which is somewhere between a trawler and a yacht, big and boxy.
  — Washington Post, 6 Aug. 2021
• Around an island off mainland Taiwan, shrimp trawlers hauled in their nets and started sifting through their catch.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025