"net" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Their great net, hung on stakes to dry, stretched for a quarter of a mile along my path.
- Outside, the sky lightened, birds skimmed across the water, fishing boats ran from their slips into a following wind, sails full out, nets stretched across their decks, prows directed toward clouds of seabirds circling above unsuspecting schools offish.
- Karr experimented, changing course to try and find the bounds of the armada, but the net of aliens stretched kiloyards in every direction.
- Out of the corner of this eye, though, he saw something more - a silver net like some giant spider web stretched between a tree and the side of the mansion.
- From coast to coast stretched a devilish net of crime waiting to snatch needed cars from vital war workers!
- The nets sometimes stretch more than twice the length of the island of Manhattan and as deep as 40 feet.
- The lieutenant's helmet has a green cloth cover stretched over it, and on top of that there is dark webbing, a black net stretched taut and tense and at this moment detumescing, heart thumping evocative.
- In this work, a net of cast aluminum letters forming a passage from Henry David Thoreau's Walden stretches across the museum's atrium and pours down into an illegible pile of letters on the floor below.
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