cast one's net

By this point, we had decided to cast a wide net.

The search is set up to cast a wide net.

For the best part of a week it was too rough to cast a net.

One day he went to the shore and cast his net.

He could cast a wide net, to include some unlikely places.

Information from search alone casts a pretty wide net already.

I'm going to cast my net at sea and catch the wind.

But not before casting a net of confusion over the site.

And like any such survey, it casts a wide net.

He guides him into a back room, and casts a net over the two of them.