How to Use netting in a Sentence

netting

noun
  • He put up wire netting around the garden.
  • Just point your hose right at the netting!
    — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 13 May 2026
  • Most space heaters are clunky and brown, with a weird netting across the front.
    — Kaitlin Menza, House Beautiful, 1 Feb. 2019
  • Players know putting in more netting is the right thing to do.
    — Juliet MacUr, New York Times, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Place the netting on stakes that are topped with plastic cups to hold it up.
    — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 16 May 2023
  • In his room on the eighth floor, his window was draped with black netting.
    — László F. Földényi, Harper's Magazine, 13 Mar. 2023
  • At the end of the bug season the large netting should be packed in this bag.
    — Margaret Atwood, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
  • Even that isn’t fool-proof, though, as some players have set up their own netting.
    — Kyle Fredrickson, The Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2020
  • His 380-foot line drive hit the netting on the foul pole in left.
    — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 19 June 2019
  • The bed is huge, with romantic netting draped by its sides.
    — Ann Lee, TheWeek, 30 Apr. 2026
  • As for how glues and netting affect the healing process?
    — Jolene Edgar, Allure, 16 Mar. 2026
  • Once in the tree stand, remove the netting and fluff the branches.
    — George Petras, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2024
  • That’s because it was stuck in the top of the netting behind home plate.
    — Tony Baranek, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2023
  • Once in the tree stand, remove the netting and fluff the branches.
    — George Petras, USA Today, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Bai made the evocative costumes out of netting, clay, and more.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The new netting will be knot-less, which the team says will improve viewing.
    — Jill Martin, CNN, 8 Aug. 2019
  • At the time of the rescue, two other whales were trapped in the same netting.
    — Madison E. Goldberg, PEOPLE, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The Tlingit hunters set a trap, a deep pit around the home lined with netting.
    — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2020
  • At its tallest, the netting will be 24-feet tall and taper down along the foul lines.
    — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • The ball was poised to sail over the wall onto the protective netting.
    — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • The intent of the netting is to protect fans from low-flying foul balls and bats.
    — Christopher Dabe, NOLA.com, 4 Apr. 2018
  • The twine instead of roots and sinew changed the entire concept of netting.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 3 July 2022
  • Boone argued the ball gazed the netting, but the call stood after a video review.
    — Mark Didtler, Hartford Courant, 4 Sep. 2022
  • If the pork is in tight netting, snip off some of the string so more of the meat is exposed for browning.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 2 Nov. 2021
  • The Tigers already have netting that extends past the dugouts.
    — Matt Bonesteel and Jake Russell, courant.com, 25 June 2019
  • Tension cables would frame the netting on all four sides, not just at the top and bottom.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 May 2026
  • Keep birds away with netting; spread wood ashes around the base of trees to keep ants from climbing up to fruits.
    — The Editors, Good Housekeeping, 15 Aug. 2018
  • The ball was flying toward the netting behind home plate.
    — Fabian Ardaya, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • In the sixth, Bedgood cleared the netting in right field with his second homer of the year.
    — NOLA.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • In the sixth, Bedgood cleared the netting in right field with his second homer of the year.
    — Christopher Dabe, NOLA.com, 28 Apr. 2018

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