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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
Recent Examples on the Web
For one measure, there’s $217 million spent just by the Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District on adding steel netting to prevent suicides by people jumping from that landmark span.
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Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2024
Avoid using bird netting because its openings are typically too large to stop cicadas from crawling through.
—USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
The tent comes with mosquito netting that when gathered around the tent poles, looks like the elegant drapes of royalty on a picnic.
—Micaela Arnett, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2024
After he was stopped on a prime opportunity, Buffalo defenseman Rasmus Dahlin caught the puck that deflected off the netting above the boards, and then spiked it off the back of the goal.
—John Wawrow, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2024
In the passing years, anti-sniper netting, surveillance equipment and rings of razor wire were added around it.
—Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
Shiffrin crashed into the safety netting at the edge of the course and was attended to for about 10 minutes.
—USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024
Dinosaurs are surrounded by a little cargo netting and, usually, a small fake plant or two.
—James Patrick, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
The netting interfered with its signal, a soldier explained.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2024
Thomas Elias, The Mercury News, 22 Mar. 2024
Avoid using bird netting because its openings are typically too large to stop cicadas from crawling through.
—USA TODAY, 7 Mar. 2024
The tent comes with mosquito netting that when gathered around the tent poles, looks like the elegant drapes of royalty on a picnic.
—Micaela Arnett, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2024
After he was stopped on a prime opportunity, Buffalo defenseman Rasmus Dahlin caught the puck that deflected off the netting above the boards, and then spiked it off the back of the goal.
—John Wawrow, USA TODAY, 7 Feb. 2024
In the passing years, anti-sniper netting, surveillance equipment and rings of razor wire were added around it.
—Carol Rosenberg, New York Times, 18 Nov. 2023
Shiffrin crashed into the safety netting at the edge of the course and was attended to for about 10 minutes.
—USA TODAY, 27 Jan. 2024
Dinosaurs are surrounded by a little cargo netting and, usually, a small fake plant or two.
—James Patrick, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
The netting interfered with its signal, a soldier explained.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 22 Feb. 2024
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“Netting.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/netting. Accessed 19 Apr. 2024.
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