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.