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snipe

[ UK /snˈa‍ɪp/ ]
[ US /ˈsnaɪp/ ]
NOUN
  1. a gunshot from a concealed location
  2. Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks
VERB
  1. hunt or shoot snipe
  2. aim and shoot with great precision
  3. attack in speech or writing
    The editors of the left-leaning paper attacked the new House Speaker

How To Use snipe In A Sentence

  • The mysterious jack snipe is a typical bird of the often water-logged northern taiga, birch and willow country.
  • During World War II, he developed a camera a hundred times more powerful than the iconoscope, which was the first night-vision camera, called the sniperscope or snooperscope, and he worked on radio-controlled missiles.
  • As estimated by the staff of the Joint Force, around two-thirds of losses were inflicted by snipers operating within such parties, who would fire from embrasures in basement walls, top-story windows and roofs.
  • And so, with this in mind, and in the spirit of wild experimentation, this week, in place of the usual guttersnipe sneering, I bring you art. Charlie Brooker's Screen burn: TV listings in haiku
  • On behalf of tiny snipers, we are delighted to invite you to join an iterative process of hematoid symposia to be held at the hinges of daily life. Dear Carl
  • It did not help that both players took to Twitter to snipe from the sidelines. Times, Sunday Times
  • As for communications equipment, the snipers need small, easily packable radios and a good directional antenna to allow for longer-range communications.
  • Delays are expected, but thereinafter Shattersnipe will return with its regularly scheduled ramblings. 2008 July « shattersnipe: malcontent & rainbows
  • Enemy snipers were just waiting to aim at the glow of a cigarette end. Times, Sunday Times
  • I believe in honesty is the best policy, not fake sniper fire. Schneider: More sobering news - the value gap
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