How to Use hardware cloth in a Sentence

hardware cloth

noun

• Line the bottoms with hardware cloth (not chicken wire) to exclude hungry gophers.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Apr. 2024
• Dig out the old soil and put a layer of hardware cloth on the bottom.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 25 Mar. 2024
• The hardware cloth above and below the ground helps control the gophers.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 8 July 2019
• Patches of hardware cloth also cling to the bottom of the fence.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 19 June 2021
• Use this hardware cloth around garden beds and on top of bulbs, which will sprout right through it.
  — Jill Gleeson, Country Living, 18 May 2021
• 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
• Each tree gets a guard, such as plastic spirals or scratchy wire called hardware cloth, on the base to protect it from mice or pests.
  — Kathy Flanigan, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2018
• 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
• Exclusion might be as easy as plugging a hole with steel wool or blocking it with hardware cloth.
  — oregonlive, 3 Mar. 2022
• Use a smaller aperture hardware cloth rather than chicken wire.
  — Kym Pokorny, OregonLive.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• Line the bottoms with hardware cloth (not chicken wire) to exclude hungry gophers.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• So for a fence to work, hardware cloth needs to extend down least 2 feet down — the limit the squirrels are willing to tunnel — and the openings in the fence need to be small enough to prevent them pushing through.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 8 July 2019
• Use hardware cloth or metal screening with at least a 1.2 mm gauge to ensure strength and durability.
  — Caroline Collins McKenzie, Country Living, 13 Apr. 2020
• Protect trees from bark-chewing animals by placing hardware cloth or other wire mesh around the trunk.
  — oregonlive, 14 Aug. 2021
• If your neighborhood features burrowing animals like voles, staple ¼ or ½-inch hardware cloth to the bottom of the frame to keep them out.
  — Fiona Gilsenan, Popular Mechanics, 14 Mar. 2020
• Be made of smooth, solid material or one-quarter inch or finer hardware cloth or wire mesh.
  — Erin Stone, azcentral, 8 June 2020
• They are best managed by setting up barriers such as covering the planting site with hardware cloth.
  — Jodi Bay, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2021
• One fairly cheap way is to use 1/4-inch hardware cloth cut in strips wide enough to overlap the bottom of the fence so it can be tacked securely and extend down into a narrow trench six inches deep.
  — Rose Kennedy, ajc, 20 Apr. 2022
• Use 1/4-inch hardware cloth for enclosures instead of chicken wire, which raccoons can easily pull apart and small rodents can squeeze through.
  — Denise Foley, Good Housekeeping, 14 Aug. 2018
• Nolan's solution included lining the bottom of the bed with 6 inches of water-absorbent sphagnum moss and a layer of hardware cloth.
  — Kendra Parks, NOLA.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• The best cage is easy to build: Just buy a roll of quarter-inch or half-inch hardware cloth, a.k.a. chicken wire, and wrap it around the plant to keep rodents, rabbits and other nibblers from eating it before it can become established.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2022
• Using hardware cloth with ¼-inch mesh, fashion a cylinder about 18 inches in diameter and 24 inches tall.
  — Doug Hall, Good Housekeeping, 21 May 2020
• Wire Cylinder Using hardware cloth with ¼-inch mesh, fashion a cylinder about 18 inches in diameter and 24 inches tall.
  — Doug Hall, Good Housekeeping, 28 June 2016
• Unfortunately, my hardware cloth barrier extends only 6 inches above the ground.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 8 July 2019
• Corrigan advises using a specific material — galvanized, 16-gauge, ¼-inch hardware cloth.
  — Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post, 28 Oct. 2022

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024