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  • adjective Resembling a net, especially a fishing net.

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Examples

  • Using color in "patch-like juxtapositions, derived from Cezanne's color modulations," her painting "Exploding Cherry Tree" achieves an exuberance tempered by a net-like interlace of dark strokes.

    John Seed: Mari Lyons: Every Object Rightly Seen John Seed 2010

  • Innovation: I love the fold-out table-type flaps, with net-like material to let out water for good drainage.

    Plano 4870 KVD Signature Series Bag JayCassell 2009

  • They then go into a net-like laundry bag in the freezer, one for each: Pork, beef, chicken.

    Use Your Freezer Efficiently To Save Money (and Food) | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • Innovation: I love the fold-out table-type flaps, with net-like material to let out water for good drainage.

    Plano 4870 KVD Signature Series Bag JayCassell 2009

  • They then go into a net-like laundry bag in the freezer, one for each: Pork, beef, chicken.

    Use Your Freezer Efficiently To Save Money (and Food) | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • For a moment I had a vision, a vision imbued with the candy-colored lucidity characteristic of the tequila hangover: I pictured Peter and this Tom guy strolling hand-in-hand through the Castro District in muscle shirts made of that net-like material.

    Hangover Andrew O. Dugas 2009

  • For a moment I had a vision, a vision imbued with the candy-colored lucidity characteristic of the tequila hangover: I pictured Peter and this Tom guy strolling hand-in-hand through the Castro District in muscle shirts made of that net-like material.

    Hangover 2009

  • His net-like beach bag's filled with other commodities: a Gerber jar of oyster halves,

    Sand Dollars 2009

  • I headed straight toward her without a backward glance at the square net-like thing which was closing in by the second.

    FILIAL TIES • by Rumjhum Biswas 2007

  • Algae can be unicellular and microscopic or colonial forming plate-like colonies, thread-like filaments, net-like tubes, or hollow balls.

    Phytoplankton 2008

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