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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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Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 4 Apr. 2026
Remove the netting before mowing.
—David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 3 Apr. 2026
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Brendan Connelly, Boston Herald, 4 Apr. 2026
Remove the netting before mowing.
—David Beaulieu, The Spruce, 3 Apr. 2026
Lawn mowing season is coming, which means that trash that is not picked up and plastic netting will be cut into smaller plastic pieces to be deposited in Naperville soil for thousands of years.
—Naperville Sun, Chicago Tribune, 3 Apr. 2026
The only solution is to cover your entire tree with 5 mm mesh netting, available from Internet vendors.
—Joshua Siskin, Oc Register, 3 Apr. 2026
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 15 Apr. 2026.
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