How to Use hardware cloth in a Sentence

hardware cloth

noun
  • Protect young trees with a hardware cloth tube.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 15 Feb. 2026
  • Vents go high on at least two walls, covered with hardware cloth.
    — Ryan Brennan, Charlotte Observer, 30 June 2026
  • Dig out the old soil and put a layer of hardware cloth on the bottom.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Protect young trees with a hardware cloth tube, says Owen.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 19 Apr. 2026
  • Use this hardware cloth around garden beds and on top of bulbs, which will sprout right through it.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Plant bulbs inside wire baskets or cages made from hardware cloth.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Replace any torn vent screens with new hardware cloth or fine-mesh screening.
    — Elizabeth Fogarty, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Patches of hardware cloth also cling to the bottom of the fence.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2021
  • Use 1/4 inch or smaller rigid mesh or wire hardware cloth about 4 feet high.
    — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 16 June 2026
  • Use ¼-inch mesh hardware cloth or expanding foam.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 12 Apr. 2026
  • The hardware cloth above and below the ground helps control the gophers.
    — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 8 July 2019
  • To protect trees, install tree tubes made of hardware cloth or plastic.
    — Andy Wilcox, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Nov. 2025
  • Cover seeds or bulbs with ¼-inch hardware cloth, and cover the cloth lightly with soil.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Cover seeds or bulbs with ¼-inch hardware cloth, and cover the cloth lightly with soil.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Use a smaller aperture hardware cloth rather than chicken wire.
    — Kym Pokorny, OregonLive.com, 13 Feb. 2018
  • For best results, bury ¼ to ½ inch hardware cloth so that 1 foot of the cloth is exposed above the soil line.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Mar. 2026
  • Choose sturdy fencing made of poultry wire or 2-inch hardware cloth.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Apr. 2026
  • Choose sturdy fencing made of poultry wire or 2-inch hardware cloth.
    — Lauren Landers, Better Homes & Gardens, 28 June 2024
  • Exclusion might be as easy as plugging a hole with steel wool or blocking it with hardware cloth.
    — oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Surrounding your garden with a hardware cloth fence and a shock wire on top will do wonders.
    — Joan Morris, Mercury News, 26 Jan. 2026
  • Use hardware cloth to exclude chipmunks from garden beds, says Owen.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 7 Aug. 2025
  • Use hardware cloth to exclude chipmunks from garden beds, says Owen.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 22 Jan. 2025
  • Consider covering your plants with hardware cloth to keep them safe.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The traps, made of light wire or hardware cloth, guide the fish inside through entrance cones at either end of a cylinder.
    — Chad Mason, Outdoor Life, 3 June 2026
  • To protect trees over winter, use ¼-inch wire hardware cloth, spaced 1 to 2 inches from the trunk.
    — Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 15 June 2018
  • Exclude opossums from spaces such as under decks or crawl spaces with hardware cloth.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 6 Aug. 2025
  • Exclude opossums from spaces such as under decks or crawl spaces with hardware cloth.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 1 July 2026
  • We were told to be sure to provide lots of ventilation, so made a coop that has an entire wall of hardware cloth.
    — oregonlive, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Line the bed bottoms with hardware cloth (not chicken wire) to exclude hungry gophers.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Line the bottoms with hardware cloth (not chicken wire) to exclude hungry gophers.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024

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