were sighting
- past progressive of sight.
Example Sentences
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As they were sighting the group, a pressagent brought another man over, a middling, fair, baldish chap with delicate, expressive lips.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cut off from the world, few of the lepers knew that they were sighting the U. S. Scouting Force, assembled in Hawaiian waters to begin the Navy's annual war games.
From Time Magazine Archive
I felt a little thrill of adventure as we chugged into the bay, as if I were sighting land where maps had noted only a sweep of undistinguished blue.
From "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" by Ransom Riggs
His eyes were sighting along an instrument of his own devising as if he were aiming some super-gun of a great air cruiser.
From Astounding Stories, May, 1931 by Various
At this end, where it looks as though I were sighting like a surveyor, I am gazing into a lens, with a tiny electric bulb close to my eye.
From The Treasure-Train by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
