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
• The best ones will have a netting that covers the stem.
  — Audrey Bruno, SELF, 31 May 2018
• 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
• Most space heaters are clunky and brown, with a weird netting across the front.
  — Kaitlin Menza, House Beautiful, 1 Feb. 2019
• 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
• In the sixth, Bedgood cleared the netting in right field with his second homer of the year.
  — Christopher Dabe, NOLA.com, 28 Apr. 2018
• Swanson broke down the field in the 62nd and had a clear look at the goal but shot into the side netting.
  — Anne M. Peterson, The Denver Post, 6 Aug. 2024
• 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
• At its tallest, the netting will be 24-feet tall and taper down along the foul lines.
  — Kevin Acee, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• 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
• The intent of the netting is to protect fans from low-flying foul balls and bats.
  — Christopher Dabe, NOLA.com, 4 Apr. 2018
• Bai made the evocative costumes out of netting, clay, and more.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
• The Yankees said the netting would be installed next month and be ready for the home opener on April 2.
  — Billy Witz, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Not long afterward, a derrick anchored offshore and began clawing apart the bluff, clouding Lake Michigan as neighbors, standing on tiptoes, held their phones above the privacy netting and gaped.
  — Ben Ryder Howe, Curbed, 7 Aug. 2024
• Like fragments of memories, the elements range from colorful daytime bucket hats to exquisite pieces for smart occasions, some in gold, some with netting or feathers.
  — Laia Farran Graves, Forbes, 28 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 15 Jan 2025