is sniping
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present progressiveof snipe (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
snipenounAlso snite any of several long-billed game birds of the genera Gallinago (sometimesCapella ) and Limnocryptes, inhabiting marshy areas, as G. gallinago common snipe, orwhole snipe, of Eurasia and North America, having barred and striped white, brown, and black plumage.
Example Sentences
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So not all the Toronto stuff is sniping.
From Slate ● May 2, 2016
But all you hear is sniping about the dumbing down of MOCA.
From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2012
If there is one thing," he says, "that the German soldier is beginning to be an adept in it is sniping.
From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 3 (of 10) From the First Battle of Ypres to the End of the Year 1914 by James Edward Parrott