I. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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None of those who sniped at his film career were ever to be so lasciviously tempted.
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The attack grew so personal, in fact, that attorneys began sniping at one another in front of the jurors.
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The Vatican claimed that sniping over Jerusalem had barely ruffled the Pope's serenity.
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The young woman was sniping at the Counsellors.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Are your eyes crooked and your legs crossed that you zig-zag like a snipe ?
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But Ann would not be plucking five hundred snipe carcases surely?
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In my mind I could almost hear the snipe whirling overhead on warm spring days in this, their prime habitat.
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It was a jack snipe , bobbing rhythmically on green legs in the shallow water.
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There can't be that number of snipe in the whole of Lewis let alone Barvas Estate, surely?
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This would deprive wading birds such as curlew and snipe of an ideal breeding sanctuary.
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Waders - redshank, snipe , dunlin - probed in the wet mud.