How to Use netting in a Sentence

netting

noun

• He put up wire netting around the garden.
• At the end of 2019, the league said some teams would extend the netting.
  — NBC News, 8 Apr. 2022
• His 380-foot line drive hit the netting on the foul pole in left.
  — John Shipley, Twin Cities, 19 June 2019
• At the end of the bug season the large netting should be packed in this bag.
  — Margaret Atwood, The New Yorker, 19 Apr. 2021
• Now just make sure Eloy Jimenez stays out of the netting.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 9 Aug. 2020
• The Tlingit hunters set a trap, a deep pit around the home lined with netting.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 6 July 2020
• Once the beds are tilled and the bulbs go in, the Zoo puts down heavy netting to try to keep the squirrels at bay.
  — Kathrine Nero, The Enquirer, 25 Apr. 2021
• As the ball rolled around in the netting above the photo pit next to the dugout, both Bogaerts and Vázquez scored.
  — Jimmy Golen, courant.com, 7 Apr. 2021
• That’s because it was stuck in the top of the netting behind home plate.
  — Tony Baranek, Chicago Tribune, 2 June 2023
• Place the netting on stakes that are topped with plastic cups to hold it up.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 16 May 2023
• Sosa homered off the netting adjoining the foul pole in left in the third to put the Phillies ahead 1-0.
  — Aaron Bracy, Sun Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2022
• In his room on the eighth floor, his window was draped with black netting.
  — László F. Földényi, Harper's Magazine, 13 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Imagine the Aqua Net in your coif meeting the black netting of the headrests.
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 22 Dec. 2020
• The ball was poised to sail over the wall onto the protective netting.
  — Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
• The Tigers already have netting that extends past the dugouts.
  — Jake Russell, The Denver Post, 25 June 2019
• 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, ajc, 4 Sep. 2022
• The new netting will be knot-less, which the team says will improve viewing.
  — Jill Martin, CNN, 8 Aug. 2019
• Bai made the evocative costumes out of netting, clay, and more.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
• The new netting in Chicago will be 30 feet high above the dugouts and reach a maximum height of 45 feet down the lines.
  — Scott King, BostonGlobe.com, 22 July 2019
• Thomas Greiss had slid to the right side of his net, leaving it wide open — but Palat’s shot sank into the side of the netting.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 1 May 2021
• As the ball plummeted, Hosmer shoved in the netting in time to scoop the ball cleanly for the third out of the inning.
  — Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Sep. 2019
• The walls of the colony rooms are black, and in each there are mesh panels attached to the ceiling and netting spread throughout the room.
  — Lydia Denworth, Scientific American, 13 June 2023
• All 30 major league teams have protective netting from home plate to at least the end of the dugouts.
  — Chip Reid, CBS News, 24 June 2019
• The hair is then added to netting and tubes in an attempt to corral and control the fuel spill.
  — Zachary Halaschak, Washington Examiner, 10 Aug. 2020
• Of this year’s deaths, two of the three happened on a section where the netting was not yet complete, said Holmes.
  — Lisa M. Krieger, The Mercury News, 30 July 2024
• Even that isn’t fool-proof, though, as some players have set up their own netting.
  — Kyle Fredrickson, The Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2020
• Inside was a clutch of poles, a bunch of nuts and bolts, and many yards of polyester mosquito netting.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 28 July 2019
• To stop cicadas from crawling up under the netting, make sure the bottom of the bag or netting is securely tied to the trunk.
  — Janet Loehrke, USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024