Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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There was sniping in the press that he was hard to tempt away from his farmhouse in Oxford, where he lived with his second wife, Emma, and their three children.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2024
Mitchell was sniping in traffic and I don't think there is anyone better in England at doing that.
From BBC ● Sep. 10, 2023
An attorney for the city, which had recommended receiver Mark Adams to the court, was sniping at Adams’ performance and indicated that it was speaking with possible replacements.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2023
Hardly had the Administration established itself before Editor Smith was sniping at it in the pages of his magazine.
From Time Magazine Archive
As we left camp, he was sniping away merrily, and about as ineffectively as usual.
From A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition by P. T. Ross
