was sighting
- past progressive of sight.
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
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 Griffis, William Elliot
He looked like a man who was sighting his home after many years of absence.
From Wanted—7 Fearless Engineers! by Tremaine, Frederick Orlin
Texas Smith was too old a borderer to attempt to draw his weapons while such a man as Kelly was sighting him at ten feet distance.
From Overland by De Forest, J. W. (John William)
