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
He was sighting, sighting, sighting, for almost a minute, and the men at the broadside guns were following his example.
From The Noank's Log A Privateer of the Revolution by W. O. Stoddard
He was sighting a gun when a round shot cut the spanker boom, and a fragment of the heavy spar knocked him senseless.
From The Fight for a Free Sea: A Chronicle of the War of 1812 The Chronicles of America Series, Volume 17 by Ralph Delahaye Paine
On the contrary, he was sighting me as coolly, as if about to fire at a piece of painted plank.
From The Wild Huntress Love in the Wilderness by Mayne Reid
