sight
noun
the power or faculty of seeing; perception of objects by use of the eyes; vision.
were 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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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
Other men on the mountain's top were sighting guns.
From Perfect Control by Richard Stockham
There were sighting devices on it, and there were ports that opened in the floor.
From The Black Star Passes by John Wood Campbell
