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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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Portland forward Deyna Castellanos fired a shot from inside the box on the far side that went just wide and hit the outside netting of the goal.
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Austin White, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2025
To those earning $50,000 a year at their regular jobs, making $5,000 in a few nights of netting was a nice bonus.
—Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
Refineries are adding improvised overhead netting and shielding, for instance.
—Tatiana Mitrova, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2025
In a clip posted to Instagram, Nicole — who dated Travis Kelce on and off from 2017 to 2022 — rocks a purple bikini topped by a revealing dress made of sparkly silver netting.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 31 Oct. 2025
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Austin White, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2025
To those earning $50,000 a year at their regular jobs, making $5,000 in a few nights of netting was a nice bonus.
—Steve Waters, Miami Herald, 7 Nov. 2025
Refineries are adding improvised overhead netting and shielding, for instance.
—Tatiana Mitrova, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2025
In a clip posted to Instagram, Nicole — who dated Travis Kelce on and off from 2017 to 2022 — rocks a purple bikini topped by a revealing dress made of sparkly silver netting.
—Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 31 Oct. 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 16 Nov. 2025.
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