Sentence examples for were netting from inspiring English sources
noun
A mesh of string, cord or rope.
Fishermen on a platform at the New York power plant were netting them.
He told the Adnkronos news agency that the criminals were netting up to $5m per trip and therefore "had no hesitation about jumping ship, given the profit margins".
A breakthrough came about one lazy summer afternoon when Freak Frohman and I were netting crayfish in the Bronx River, and he turned to me and said, "Maybe that stuff my father squirts in his drink could be the propulsive agent we're looking for".
At the same time that the Iranians were netting eight times more opium and three times more heroin than all the other countries in the world combined, Mr. De Leo said, his office was the smallest in the region and he had to cut back some programs, like drug sniffer dog training, because Western nations had cut back on financing.
By 1995, they were netting $1 million on $4.9 million in sales.
He's netting close to $200,000a week.
Large numbers of menhaden are netted annually.
In 1999 America and Britain were net international debtors, whereas Germany and Japan were net international creditors.
Insiders were net sellers at 569 companies.
