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Example sentences for "net"

Lexicographically close words:
nestled; nestles; nestling; nestlings; nests; netai; nete; neth; nethe; nether
  1. Piper 12mo, cloth decorative, with a frontispiece in full color, decorative jacket, net $1.

  2. Read, and six black and white illustrations by John Goss, decorative jacket, net $1.

  3. Robinson 12mo, cloth decorative, with a frontispiece in full color and other illustrations by William Van Dresser, net $1.

  4. A wild country, caught in the net of the stone walls.

  5. Mamma's black net Indian scarf, dotted with little green and scarlet flowers, was drawn tight over her hips to hide the place that Catty had scorched with the iron.

  6. You could look through the black net and see the top of her head laid out in stripes of grey hair and pinky skin.

  7. The plaster joints of the walls and the dark net of earth between the cobbles showed thick and clear as in a very old engraving.

  8. Somewhere behind his eyes his life was leaking away through the torn net of the blood vessels, bleeding away over his brain, under his hair, under the tender, desperate fingers.

  9. She wore a black net cap with purple rosettes above her ears.

  10. When he knew he was caught in the net and couldn't get out.

  11. Green fields coming on from the north, going up and up, netted in with the strong net of the low grey walls that held them together, that kept them safe.

  12. You were tangled and strangled in a net of unclean wool.

  13. The ring of this net consists of two steel springs attached to a couple of brass hinges, one of which is fixed near one end of the handle, while the other slides up and down in the gamp fashion.

  14. The same net is used, any reliable killing bottle will do, and the pins and collecting box used for butterflies are equally serviceable.

  15. Whenever you capture a butterfly by a sweep of the net through the air, you immediately turn the ring into a horizontal position, so that the bag of the net closes itself as it falls over the edge.

  16. The net need not be used at all during the colder months of the year, as the moths are easily taken in pill boxes from the trunks and fences on which they rest.

  17. The perfect insect flies during May, June, and July; and being rather heavy on the wing, it is easily taken with a net as it hovers round the branches of its favourite trees or among the flowers of gardens at dusk.

  18. Nothing is more annoying than to find your net give way just when you are in the midst of a good day's sport.

  19. To catch these you must be always on the alert, with net in hand, ready to make a dash at the right moment.

  20. Another splendid method of securing larvae where mere searching would be tedious and unproductive, lies in the use of the sweep net described on page 102.

  21. When your frame is completed, sew round it a strip of strong calico, to which the net itself may be afterwards sewn, for the lighter material of the net is too delicate to stand the constant friction against the metal or cane frame.

  22. Both these classes of sugar seekers may easily be secured by means of a net commonly known as the 'sugaring net.

  23. Next make a conical net of leno, open at both ends, and of such a size that the two rings may form the frames of its two extremities.

  24. And it is upon this effect of sweet and beautiful possibilities, caught in the net of animal jealousies and thoughtless motives and ancient rigid institutions, that I would end this writing.

  25. We did not play very much, but we "practised" sedulously at a net in the paddock with the gardener and the doctor's almost grown-up sons.

  26. Somewhere under that enormous serenity to the south of us the hunted Boers must be halting to snatch an hour or so of rest, and beyond them again extended the long thin net of the pursuing British.

  27. Then they spent the whole night in weaving a net with the pliant willow and rushes.

  28. Eliza laid herself down on the net, and when the sun rose and her brothers again became wild swans, they took up the net with their beaks and flew up to the clouds with their dear sister, who still slept.

  29. Said the owl: "You cut the net in which I was caught, and I vowed to recompense you.

  30. The entire price or gross value of every home-made article constitutes net revenue, net income to British subjects.

  31. All this capital which is employed and consumed in production, is the net spendable income of the producing nation.

  32. Not a portion of the value, but the whole value, is resolvable into net income and revenue maintaining British families, and creating and sustaining British markets.

  33. I would no more sleep under a white net than I would lie in my hammock and blow a horn to show where I was.

  34. Nothing escaped his eye from the time when he emerged from his mosquito net in the misty morning until he entered it again by firelight.

  35. With one sweep of the arm his net was torn aside and he leaped out with pistol drawn.

  36. In de plotselinge beweging om de weitasch op zijn andere zijde te schuiven, had een der kleine mazen van het net den haan van zijn linker loop gevat, het geweer in de hoogte geheven, en het schot doen afgaan.

  37. As meheer na' de Regenten gaat", hernam hij, "mot meheer maar net doen as of ie van nies weet.

  38. Ik ben altijd maar blij als U bij meheer komt, want hij is anders zoo'n vroolijk mensch, net as meheer ook; maar in die dagen is het dan onnoozel!

  39. If the owner of such an Island had borrowed in Philadelphia the thousand pounds to improve it, and given six per cent interest, he would have gained a net revenue of one hundred and forty pounds.

  40. The path was soon covered and poor John took the wrong turn, then tried to come back, and soon was hopelessly lost.

  41. You cannot even lift my old cat off the ground,” said the giant.

  42. The harvest over, the seed corn is reserved for the next sowing; the expenses of the harvest are deducted, and the net profit is halved, one half going to the proprietor, and one to the colonist.

  43. To gain some idea of his net profits, we turn to the following details, which are drawn from a competent source: Approximate Estimate of the Expenses and the Yield of 247 acres of land sown with Wheat.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "net" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acquire; afford; angle; apprehend; arabesque; arrest; avoirdupois; bag; bait; balance; basketwork; beef; bid; braid; burden; cancellation; capture; catch; circuit; clam; clear; cobweb; colander; commission; contract; corduroy; corral; cotton; cramp; credit; cripple; crop; deadweight; decoy; deficit; derive; difference; discrepancy; dividend; dragnet; draw; drive; earn; earnings; embarrass; encumber; ensnare; entangle; entrap; entwine; fabric; fetter; filigree; fish; fishhook; fly; foul; fret; fretwork; gain; gains; gate; get; gig; gin; gleaning; grate; grating; gravity; grid; gridiron; grille; gross; hamper; hamstring; handicap; harpoon; harvest; hatching; heft; hoard; hobble; honeycomb; hook; impede; income; intake; interest; interlace; intertwine; interweave; inveigle; involve; killing; knit; lace; lacing; lame; land; lariat; lasso; lattice; left; leftover; lime; loom; loop; lucre; lumber; lure; make; makings; mat; mesh; meshes; money; nail; natural; net; netting; network; noose; nylon; obtain; odd; output; outstanding; over; overweight; pay; pelf; percentage; perquisite; pickings; plait; plexus; plug; poundage; proceeds; procure; produce; profit; quotation; realize; reap; receipt; receipts; receive; remainder; remaining; return; returns; revenue; riddle; rope; royalty; sack; score; screen; secure; seize; sell; shackle; shrimp; sieve; snag; snare; snarl; spare; spear; spin; spinner; splice; sponge; springe; store; strainer; superfluous; surplus; take; tangle; texture; tissue; toil; tonnage; torch; tracery; trammel; trap; trawl; trellis; trip; troll; twill; twine; twist; underweight; unused; wattle; wealth; weave; weaving; web; weft; whale; win; wind; winnings; wreathe; yield