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

Major Cavender had wheeled his guns into position, and was sighting them.

From Winning His Way by Coffin, Charles Carleton

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 Bates, Harry

It was where the line ran very near the edge and Frank must have stepped over the cliff as he was sighting along it.

From The Brimming Cup by Fisher, Dorothy Canfield