They're leading out hipposaurs, and sniping at the rear of the cavalry barracks.
Some of these patrols had to be recalled, around 1030, when sporadic nuisance-sniping began from the side of the mountain to the west.
The pits of the sniping riflemen scarred across the river-bed some fifty yards in advance.
Brouncker's sharpshooters are sniping at the women--the Sister of Mercy and the girl!
We had to take a narrow path on the way, with Fritz sniping us every step; he had registered the path and it was a constant target for his machine guns and snipers.
During the game the snipingwas active and continuous, the bullets chipping the building in all quarters.
Our ammunition was exhausted, not a shell remaining, and we grabbed our rifles, retreating with the rest, and sniping and dropping as we fell back.
He kept at his work, busily hunting for the break in the wire, with the sniping pills passing his ears continually.
The art of sniping and its attendant pastime scouting is not learned in a day.
The gentle art of sniping in the battalion when Bill joined with a draft had been woefully neglected.
The real sniping commander of the battalion--I mean no disrespect to the worthy young officer who officially filled that position--looked at the eager face opposite him and laughed.
Here both sides were holding trenches that would have become impossible if any sniping had been done.
Owing to their vantage ground on the hill the enemy had little difficulty in snipingand shelling our trenches effectively.
These new trenches were quiet enough, but the sniping of the enemy was far too good.
Next morning the sniping was renewed and the Indian troops, moving out to search the ground, found several hundred of the enemy in the hollow previously mentioned.
Late in the afternoon of the 3d there wassniping from the east bank between Tussum and Serapeum, and a man was killed on the tops of a British battleship.
We might drive the Mexican soldiers much further, but the trouble is that hundreds of them have joined in the sport of sniping at the hated Americanos.
The very style of combat adopted by the enemy made it necessary for the Americans, avoiding needless losses, to fight back in the same sniping way.
There was still much snipingin the city, though now the firing came mostly from the rear of the town.
You are directed, Lieutenant, to hold this roof until you have silenced all sniping within easy range, and then you are to fall back to the Post-office and report to the senior officer there.
From the hedge a few, sniping shots came now and then, but, as no one was hit, Darrin did not allow the fire to be returned.
Sniping never ceases by day, but the actual battles are almost invariably fought by night.
Imagine the difficulties of such a life with continued sniping and bomb throwing!
From the darkness on the farther sides of the fires, however, they still kept up a sniping fire.
Nothing but a little sniping going on at present," reported Dalzell.
Sniping was sometimes indulged in, but a target rarely presented itself for the simple reason that the enemy was hardly ever in his front line trenches during daylight.
However, sniping was still indulged in by the artillery, and no parties of any size were permitted to go about freely near the front line under observation.
Much difficulty was experienced by both friend and foe in entering their respective front line, so much so that, by common consent, sniping by rifle fire was discontinued until parapets were constructed and made fit for occupation.
Sniping was also rampant, and periscopes, no matter how small, survived not longer than a few minutes.
Little or no sniping took place, but the artillery went through their usual routine, in fact rather increased their fire that day.
A favourite diversion was sniping with one of our pieces, which was a particularly accurate one, and several points of observation and snipers' posts were carefully registered.
On many occasions we were able to bring assistance to the harassed infantrymen, by spotting the offending snipers, and by, in turn, sniping at them with our "How.
The game of long bowls and sniping suits them best.
The sun began to sink, the firing in our rear dropped and died out gradually, and with a few shots from a Martini, fired by someone on the left who amused himself by sniping the staff, the fight came to an end.
But if there was no heavy fighting, the trench casualties from sniping and enemy shell-fire were quite considerable (see Appendix).
Soon afterwards they started again, under closesniping and machine-gun fire, and succeeded in reaching and bandaging the wounded man, but just as Corporal Stirk had lifted him on Private Caffrey's back he himself was shot in the head.
They were ripe for a fight; they were tired of the monotony of sniping at a few Turks and digging and tunnelling.
So far, Pope's and Russell's Top were unconnected, the Turks holding the head of this gully, which made their sniping of Monash Gully so effective.
The enemy again fought his sniping screen with conspicuous ability.
Turkish post from which most of the deadliest sniping was carried on.
On the night of May 28, a squadron of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles crept up the dere and took this sniping post by surprise at the point of the bayonet.
I called up our sniping battery, and got them to range a shell to be sure they would not miss.
Steady sniping and patrol action was carried on actively by both forces.
F" Company alternated with platoons of the Royal Scots in this position in the woods for the balance of the month, during which there was constant shelling and sniping but with few casualties among our ranks.
The shelling and snipinghere had been quite heavy.
The sniping here was as deadly as at Kemmel, though round the corner in "A1" we could have danced on the parapet and attracted no attention.
Platoon (Christy) had been very actively sniping the enemy on the Cailloux Road, and soon after midday, came the retaliation in the form of heavy shelling which lasted about an hour.
Angrave keptsniping at the gunners, who replied to each of his shots with a whizz-bang.
The situation of the children's race amounted to an infinitely speeded-up bombardment instead of a millennial sniping from the sky.
That," he said, "started out as a gadget for a castaway to stop arrows that savages were sniping at him with.
By morning his advanced posts would be sniping at the thin khaki line.
To that now was to be added a fresh hazard--the sniping that goes on all night long.
Again it is wide, so that friendly relations are impossible, and sniping becomes a pleasure as well as an art.
Meanwhile Colonel King, on the right rear with his Kimberley men, assisted in the fight, and finally after much volleying and sniping the Dutchmen took themselves off.
Friday the 13th, the following Saturday and Sunday, were used by the Boers for their Easter devotions--not that they were too devout to enjoy a little sniping in the intervals.
From their fox-holes where, so far at least, they had held their own in a sniping contest with the enemy, they retraced their steps over the ground they had won past the bodies of their dead comrades.
But the Yankees, all the while nagging the enemy by sniping and shell-fire, held on here and across the road under the same conditions.
The valor of tired men had done all it could under sniping of machine-guns and all calibers of artillery.
The Texans and Oklahomans enjoyed themselves in swimming across on scouting trips and in a period of active snipinggratifying to ranger inheritance.
There was a good deal of sniping during the trek, in which one man[15] was severely wounded.
Severe snipingwas experienced on the way back to Bloemhof--several mules and horses, and one or two men being hit.
This sniping continued right up to the outposts of Bloemfontein.
The Turks were expected to counterattack, but contented themselves by sniping from all sides, which considerably impeded the work of consolidation.
With the recollection of the sniping episode fresh in his memory, he appreciated his attendant's emphatic injunction for silence, for caution.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sniping" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
