Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
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Even before the company made its filing in United States Bankruptcy Court in San Francisco, various groups were sniping at one another.
From New York Times ● Jan. 29, 2019
And so, as a family we found that the experience was that we were sniping at each other a lot.
From Slate
No specific dates for disarmament have been set, and barely hours passed before Pyongyang and Washington were sniping at each other over the details.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week Editors Carter and Wechsler, onetime staffers on Manhattan's late, hyperthyroid PM, were sniping at each other in a lively bushwhacking fight.
From Time Magazine Archive
If we were sniping by day they could not move at all; and the track had probably been made by Germans moving at night.
From Letters from France by C. E. W. (Charles Edwin Woodrow) Bean
