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: the act or process of making a net or network
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: the act, process, or right of fishing with a net
Examples of netting in a Sentence
He put up wire netting around the garden.
wore a veil of netting
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Place some wooden stakes around the plants to support the netting and use landscaping pins every few inches to pin the netting to the ground.
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 21 May 2025
And all the drones can be blocked by armor, mesh or netting—or by simply closing the door to any structure a vehicle and its crew might be sheltering in.
—David Axe, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
With two on, two outs and the Dodgers desperately looking for an answer against Burnes, Hernandez got a 1-and-2 slider over the plate and deposited it 413 feet onto the netting beyond the center field wall.
—Kyle Glaser, Oc Register, 22 May 2025
Extending protective netting has been a longstanding conversation among Major League Baseball officials, and the Rockies — along with dozens of other teams — have increased netting coverage in the past.
—Katie Langford, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025
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Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 21 May 2025
And all the drones can be blocked by armor, mesh or netting—or by simply closing the door to any structure a vehicle and its crew might be sheltering in.
—David Axe, Forbes.com, 8 May 2025
With two on, two outs and the Dodgers desperately looking for an answer against Burnes, Hernandez got a 1-and-2 slider over the plate and deposited it 413 feet onto the netting beyond the center field wall.
—Kyle Glaser, Oc Register, 22 May 2025
Extending protective netting has been a longstanding conversation among Major League Baseball officials, and the Rockies — along with dozens of other teams — have increased netting coverage in the past.
—Katie Langford, Chicago Tribune, 21 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for netting
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“Netting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/netting. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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