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How to use snipe in a sentence

19 example sentences · noun, verb

Snipe means any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak. Example: “Chat, I'm blocking the screen so you don't stream snipe me.”

Examples of snipe by meaning

verbTo watch a timed online auction and place a winning bid against (the current high bidder) at the last possible moment.

  • Tip: Adding a few cents to your maximum bid is particularly effective when you're sniping. (..) Last-second bidding is called sniping, and 15 percent of all eBay auctions are won within the last minute.2005, Nancy Conner, eBay: The Missing Manual: The Missing Manual, O'Reilly Media, Inc., →ISBN, page 126
  • Sniping is the process of placing bids in the closing minutes or seconds of an auction.2007, Entrepreneur Press, Start Your Own Business on eBay: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success, Entrepreneur Press, →ISBN, page 64
  • Sniping happens on eBay because the end time of each auction is rigidly enforced.2008, Michael Miller, Absolute Beginner's Guide to EBay, Que Publishing, →ISBN, page 68

verbTo move the ball quickly in a different direction.

  • Hernández sniped away from Jérôme Boateng and Mats Hummels.2018 June 17, Barney Ronay, “Mexico’s Hirving Lozano stuns world champions Germany for brilliant win”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The...

verbTo make malicious, underhand remarks or attacks.

  • Farage sniped that the Cameron government — made up disproportionately of career politicians who graduated from Eton and Oxbridge — was “run by a bunch of college kids, none of whom have ever had a proper job in their lives.”2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, “British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party”, in New York Times, retrieved 29 May 2013

verbTo attach a note or sticker to (an existing poster) to provide further information, political criticism, etc.

  • Campus newspaper advertising rates are inexpensive, flyers can be simple because the ticket-price message is strong, and regular campaign posters are easily adapted to the student market by sniping them.1983, Joseph V. Melillo, Market the Arts!
  • At the time, a poster cost more to snipe than to print.2018, Avram Finkelstein, After Silence: A History of AIDS Through Its Images, page 42

More sentences with snipe

  • Chat, I'm blocking the screen so you don't stream snipe me.From the entry stream snipe
  • It is typically frowned upon to stream snipe another person.From the entry stream snipe
  • Sniping is necessary because if you bid before the last minute it just gives the shills more time to screw you over.From the entry shill
  • Snipe hunting is like “52 Pickup.” You learn the game the first time you play it.2010, Ernest Ranly, Pick Up Stuff: Family Farm Life, PublishAmerica, →ISBN. From the entry 52 pickup
  • “Sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of your sweatshirt continuing to rip,” I sniped back.2004, Melanie Jackson, The Mask on the Cruise Ship, Orca Book Publishers, →ISBN, page 141. From the entry I can't hear you over the sound of
  • Greenshank, dunlins, common sand, snipe and blackwits accompanied the pec.2016 August 1, Trevor Lee, “Another pec.”, in Lincsbirders (blog), archived from the original on 01 Jan 2025. From the entry pec
  • You know what, this is a snipe hunt.2012 December 13, “The Leviathan”, in Elementary, season 1, episode 10, spoken by Watson (Lucy Liu). From the entry snipe hunt
  • Oh, look, our mam, there's a wisp of snipe and an exultation of skylarks flying over that clouder of cats!2001, Gervase Phinn, Over Hill and Dale, Penguin Books Limited. From the entry exultation
  • They always sniped at each other in public.1968, Carl Ruhen, The Key Club, Sydney: Scripts, page 35. From the entry sniper
  • "You lying little snipe," he roared.1908, Stewart Edward White, chapter 12, in The Adventures of Bobby Orde. From the entry tan someone's hide
  • A flock of snipe is given the collective name of a "wisp", perhaps due to its rapid twisting and turning before the birds drop down again.1988, Michael Cady, Rob Hume, editors, The Complete Book of British Birds, page 158. From the entry wisp
  • There were snipe in countless myriads, and wild geese in flocks that rose from the jeel with a roar like a goods train crossing an iron bridge.1934, George Orwell, Burmese Days. From the entry jeel

Meaning of snipe

  1. noun Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.
  2. noun A fool; a blockhead.
  3. noun A shot fired from a concealed place.

Full definition of snipe

Questions about snipe in a sentence

How do you use snipe in a sentence?
Snipe is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Chat, I'm blocking the screen so you don't stream snipe me.”
What is a short sentence with snipe?
“"You lying little snipe," he roared.”
What does snipe mean?
Snipe means any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.

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