sight
noun
the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
was sighting
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past progressiveof sight.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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I was sighting so constantly on the bright, sun-lighted snow beneath us that my right eye began to show the first symptoms of snow blindness.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the time I’d finished, the Preacher had only shot three of the wood hunks and was sighting in on number four.
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
As the gun-layer was sighting his piece, he asked his officer, "Which pontoon, sir?"
From The Childrens' Story of the War, Volume 2 (of 10) From the Battle of Mons to the Fall of Antwerp. by James Edward Parrott
Hart was sighting along a tiny tube that projected into the forward partition and he maneuvered the Pioneer until she was nose on to the great ring.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 by Harry Bates
Before night he was not only dragging the chain, but was sighting the instrument.
From Charles Carleton Coffin War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman by William Elliot Griffis
