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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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
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
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
Our men were standing at the guns, which officers were sighting in order to get more accurate range, and the infantry had not budged.
From An Original Belle by Edward Payson Roe
