[
UK
/snˈaɪp/
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[ US /ˈsnaɪp/ ]
[ US /ˈsnaɪp/ ]
NOUN
- a gunshot from a concealed location
- Old or New World straight-billed game bird of the sandpiper family; of marshy areas; similar to the woodcocks
VERB
- hunt or shoot snipe
- aim and shoot with great precision
-
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