Definition of Snipings

1. sniping [n] - See also: sniping

Lexicographical Neighbors of Snipings

sniped
snipefish
snipelike
sniper
sniper rifle
sniper rifles
sniperlike
snipers
sniperscope
sniperscopes
snipes
snipier
snipiest
sniping
snipingly
snipings (current term)
snippack
snipped
snipper
snipper-snapper
snipper-snappers
snippers
snippersnapper
snippersnappers
snippet
snippetier
snippetiest
snippets
snippety
snippier

Literary usage of Snipings

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle (1900)
"A succession of small skirmishes and snipings cost them no less than sixty casualties. Lord Methuen's force, after its long marches and arduous work, ..."

2. The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle (1900)
"A succession of small skirmishes and snipings cost them no less than sixty casualties. Lord Methuen's force, after its long marches and arduous work, ..."

3. The Great Boer War by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)
"On these we may concentrate our attention, for the marchings and gleanings and snipings of the numerous small columns in the other portions of the colony, ..."

4. The Holy War in Tripoli by George Frederick Abbott (1912)
"They were sick of what one of them called " the very small-beer of daily snipings and skirmishes." They found it " intolerable and destructive of all ..."

5. Terrorist Group Profiles (1993)
"They also are functionally specialized in such activities as intelligence, snipings, executions, bombings, or robberies, and are capable of operating ..."

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