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
  • 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
  • The ball was poised to sail over the wall onto the protective netting.
    Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Bai made the evocative costumes out of netting, clay, and more.
    Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
  • 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
  • There won’t be confetti or a car with cans tied to the back, or people in those big hats with the netting.
    Daisy Jones, Vogue, 6 Sep. 2023
  • In the ninth, Vasconcelos fired one near-post that hit the side netting.
    oregonlive, 31 May 2023
  • The look is topped off with a mini black top hat that had black netting going all the way down past her waist.
    Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 12 Oct. 2022
  • The wire or netting can be removed in spring before the bulbs start growing.
    Tim Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 13 Nov. 2021
  • The ball popped shallowly over the infield and Patty Gasso gripped the netting in front of her perch in the dugout.
    Ryan Aber, USA TODAY, 10 June 2021
  • Auerbach leaped into the netting behind the plate at Canal Park to catch the popup and end the inning.
    Mark Inabinett | Minabinett@al.com, al, 28 Aug. 2022
  • Shiffrin crashed into the safety netting at the edge of the course and was attended to for about 10 minutes.
    USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024
  • Each plane could carry up to 17 of the pallets that ran the length of each plane secured by white cargo netting.
    Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 8 Sep. 2023
  • At the time of the 2019 game, Minute Maid Park's netting reached from the end of one dugout to the other, however, the child was sitting farther down the left-field line.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 15 Aug. 2021
  • Rodents, dogs, and cats are kept out by a high netting that encloses many acres of land.
    Martha C. Nussbaum, The New York Review of Books, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Please be aware that the wayward golf ball had gotten over a tall netting that was surrounding the golf course.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 1 Nov. 2021
  • And even a small opening in the netting allows the mosquitoes to enter.
    Monika Mondal, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2022
  • The crew peeled back its camouflage netting, fired twice and then concealed again.
    Yurii Shyvala Mauricio Lima, New York Times, 23 July 2023
  • The wildfire and the strong winds damaged one of the center’s bird barns and poked holes in the netting used to protect the creatures from mosquitoes.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Aug. 2023
  • No screens on the windows, no doors to the rooms — only curtains and mosquito netting and open air.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 25 Jan. 2024
  • Or the finger-pointing thanks to his catcher, Max Stassi, who caught a foul ball that popped up high and dropped along the back netting.
    Sarah Valenzuela, Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
  • Sly, a freshman, got the ball on the wing, beat her defender, and rifled a bar over the keeper's head into the back netting.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Chicago levels the game (32') Kacper Przybyłko hit a one-time shot from a wide angle that found the side-netting to equalize for the Fire.
    Cincinnati Enquirer, The Enquirer, 19 Mar. 2023

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