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How to use netting in a sentence

16 example sentences · noun

Netting means something that acts as, or looks like, a net. Example: “Every party is netting their position with a counter-party.”

More sentences with netting

  • Every party is netting their position with a counter-party.From the entry net
  • The main human-induced threat to Hector's and Maui's dolphins is set netting, followed by trawling.2008, Klaus Bosselmann, Ron Engel, Prue Taylor, Governance for Sustainability: Issues, Challenges, Successes, →ISBN. From the entry set netting
  • No-see-um netting may keep out the tiniest of insects, but unfortunately, it also barely lets air through.2007, The Boundary Waters Journal, volumes 21-22, page 103. From the entry no-see-um
  • Our biocenometer was a bottomless cube of 1 m side, whose sides and top were covered with a fine netting mesh.2016 February 13, “Omnivory of an Insular Lizard: Sources of Variation in the Diet of Podarcis lilfordi (Squamata, Lacertidae)”, in PLOS…. From the entry biocenometer
  • Other women used netting and cotton wool.1992, Maureen Sutton, We Didn't Know Aught, page 17. From the entry bunny
  • Gate netting and snaring are impossible where this is done.1927, Nicholas Everitt, Ernest Ivens Watson, Shots from a lawyer's gun, page 311. From the entry smeuse
  • Cordons might be protected by hoops covered with tiffany, Russian canvas, mats, or netting; bushes by nets, mats, etc.1903, E. Bartrum, The Book of Pears and Plums, London: John Lane, page 34. From the entry tiffany
  • Strip the netting under the mattresses.2017, Rachel Caine [pseudonym; Roxanne Longstreet Conrad], Ash and Quill, New York, N.Y.: Berkley, →ISBN, page 34. From the entry unseat
  • It was only after Yakubu sliced another chance into the side netting, a bad miss by the former Everton striker, that Norwich came to life.2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport. From the entry come to life
  • Unlike drifting, set netting is done in a small skiff, not unlike a Boston Whaler, usually between fifteen and twenty feet in length.2008, Bill Carter, Red Summer, →ISBN, pages 15–16. From the entry set netting
  • Other reptiles found in the district are the chamaeleon, geco and monitor lizard, the last getting extinct due to netting and shooting.1988, Uttar Pradesh District Gazetteers: Aligarh, volume 20, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India: Government of Uttar Pradesh, →OCLC, page 15. From the entry gecko
  • Wire netting has been erected in many places to stop straying animals, and most of the level crossing gates are locked and broken.1951 February, “Notes and News: Lynton & Barnstaple Remains”, in Railway Magazine, page 136. From the entry wire netting
  • There were lots of them that year, camped out on the riverbank netting for whitebait, then fanning out around the streets selling their catch door to door.2017, Fiona Farrell, Decline and Fall on Savage Street, →ISBN, page 66. From the entry swagger
  • Behind the lines, the gunners had the semiprotection of makeshift shelters - sheets of corrugated galvanized iron, bolted together and covered with layers of sandbags, sod, and netting.2003, Shelley McKellar, Surgical limits: the life of Gordon Murray, page 17. From the entry semiprotection
  • Though obviously roughened from hard work, her hands were gentle as she gathered up Catherine's hair and arranged the delicate netting of the crispinette over it.2001, Mary Reed McCall, chapter 3, in Secret Vows, Avon. From the entry crispinette
  • Visitors barely had time to hang the Cortina on a tree, grab a pre-match kangarooburger, and chisel last week's chewinggum off the sea before the netting started to bulge.1982, Private Eye, Issues 523-549, unknown page. From the entry kangarooburger

Meaning of netting

  1. noun Something that acts as, or looks like, a net.
  2. noun Urine.

Full definition of netting

Questions about netting in a sentence

How do you use netting in a sentence?
Netting is used as a noun. For example: “Every party is netting their position with a counter-party.”
What is a short sentence with netting?
“Strip the netting under the mattresses.”
What does netting mean?
Netting means something that acts as, or looks like, a net.

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