dragnet vs pull in

dragnet

verb
  • To make heightened efforts to catch a suspect. 

  • To drag a net across the bottom of a body of water. 

noun
  • Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects. 

  • A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water. 

pull in

verb
  • To arrest someone; to take someone to a police station because they may have done something. 

  • To earn [money]. 

  • To approach a station; to arrive at a station. 

  • To pull something, so that it comes inside. 

  • To approach or drive up to a place and come to a stop. 

  • To tighten a sail by pulling on a rope. 

How often have the words dragnet and pull in occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )