How to Use snipe in a Sentence

snipe

1 of 2 noun

• Hugo gave the snipe a final charge, and the bird sprang into the air.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 31 July 2021
• Auston sits in the back and snipes, and Mitch runs around and looks for you.
  — Alex Prewitt, SI.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• A snipe makes that sound not with its throat but its tail.
  — Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 July 2017
• The dove gun also works for snipe and rails with light loads of steel.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 6 July 2020
• Some know the marsh along Turnagain Arm used to scream with the calls of pipers, snipe, ducks and geese.
  — Jeff Lowenfels, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2021
• The snipe is so fast that some fish might never notice they’ve been hit.
  — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 12 Mar. 2021
• In the game, players beat, snipe, garotte, stab, stomp, blast, and burn infected by the dozen.
  — Will Bedingfield, WIRED, 12 Jan. 2023
• Evgeny Kuznetsov cut the Bolts’ lead in half late in the third on a dazzling snipe from a bad angle.
  — Kristen Nelson, SI.com, 15 May 2018
• But Williams’ goal in the third quarter opened the floodgates, as Marr tied the game with a snipe into the top corner of the net.
  — Jacob Shames, baltimoresun.com, 6 May 2018
• Boyle came through in the clutch again in the shootout, icing the Devils' 4-3 victory with a five-hole snipe against Lundqvist.
  — Matt Wyatt, Houston Chronicle, 21 Dec. 2017
• More to the point, a game too staid for its spikes at times begs for a broad-shouldered pair to snipe, eye-roll and tweet us to the sofa’s edge.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 June 2021
• The two alpha dudes snipe at each other and even have a staring contest.
  — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 26 Mar. 2021
• In the 1770s, British soldiers in India coined the term sniper to describe someone who could hit a little bird, such as a snipe.
  — Amanda Foreman, WSJ, 7 Sep. 2017
• Jakub Vrana started it all with a breakaway snipe over Marc-Andre Fleury’s glove.
  — Tyler Horka, SI.com, 7 June 2018
• James Neal opened the scoring for Vegas with a snipe over Braden Holtby’s left shoulder.
  — Tyler Horka, SI.com, 30 May 2018
• Notable birds this past week have been a great gray owl, an American kestrel and a lone common snipe.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 15 May 2021
• Chychrun persisted in the next play and followed up with another long-range snipe to tie the game at 10:16.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 28 Feb. 2022
• Female sea snipes, which impregnate the males, and leave them to stay home and rear the young, have higher testosterone levels than their mates.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 26 Jan. 2018
• For Cruz, first elected in 2012, the hourlong show has been a way to promote his agenda, comment on the week’s events, snipe at Democrats and play pundit.
  — Dallas News, 10 Oct. 2022
• That one went far side, blocker high, but Tuesday’s identical snipe, 1:36 in, was short side, low glove.
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Jan. 2020
• Coots, herons, both great blue and tricolor, egrets, bitterns, rails, snipe and a host of other wading birds prowl the shallows.
  — Ben Raines | [e-mail], AL.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• Once Hanover got settled, Taylor swept momentum from the Bulldogs with a far-side snipe below the circles with 12:26 left in the first.
  — Bob Holmes, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• Evegnii Dadonov scored his 22nd goal of the season, a top corner snipe after speeding out of the defensive zone.
  — Matthew Defranks, Sun-Sentinel.com, 13 Mar. 2018
• In one story, a fox is outsmarted by a flock of snipe that would have otherwise become lunch.
  — Maddie Bender, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 July 2022
• This probably sounds like a snipe at the Filmmaker Mode, but it’s really not meant that way.
  — John Archer, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• With a power play snipe just 29 seconds into the third period Friday, on his 25th shot of the series, Pastrnak found the back of the net.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 22 May 2021
• Evenly matched through two periods Minnesota opened the scoring with a snipe from Brody Lamb past Portillo on the left side.
  — Ryan Ford, Detroit Free Press, 19 Mar. 2023
• No more snipe whistling in the meadow, no more piping of widgeons and chattering of teal as darkness covers the marshes; no more whistling of swift wings when the morning star pales in the east?
  — Paul A. Smith, Journal Sentinel, 26 Feb. 2023
• Stalock’s shoulder save on Teravainen’s quick snipe sent the puck around the right boards where Staal initiated the breakout with a pass to Zuccarello.
  — Peter Koutroumpis / Special To The Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 7 Dec. 2019
• Australia eventually made its pressure count as a quick snipe from scrum half White broke the deadlock with his third try for the Wallabies.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 11 Oct. 2019

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snipe

2 of 2 verb

• One of the senators sniped, “What does he think this is, a monarchy?”.
• Enemy fighters sniped at them from vacant buildings.
• The real challenge, though, will come the next time he’s called upon to snipe.
  — Dan Woike, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Sep. 2017
• Snow said that people have laughed at the sign, but then returned when a gull sniped their lunch.
  — Lindsay Crudele, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
• Trump is sure to snipe at Biden (on Twitter or elsewhere).
  — Varad Mehta, Washington Examiner, 17 Dec. 2020
• Some like to snipe 'yotes at long distances, while others like to call them right into their laps.
  — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 17 Sep. 2019
• Porter is up for election in 2022 in a race that Republicans would love to snipe back.
  — Jenny Singer, Glamour, 12 May 2022
• And the candidates wound up again sniping more with each other than making the case against the front-runner who still wasn't there.
  — Rick Klein, ABC News, 8 Nov. 2023
• Trump and Comey continue to snipe at each other publicly.
  — Sari Horwitz, Washington Post, 29 Apr. 2018
• Mabel feigns interest in the story, inching closer to him to snipe the film drive from his pocket.
  — Radhika Menon, ELLE, 15 Aug. 2023
• Tony and Frances are two peas in a pain pod, and Canavale and McCarthy are a joy to watch as their characters snipe and spar their way toward recovery.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Aug. 2021
• One very quick stash, for example, simply required me to snipe a keypad through a window across a lake.
  — Steven Strom, Ars Technica, 27 Mar. 2018
• The Westworld Hunger Games are underway, as one after another, hosts and humans snipe, hack, and stab their way through the city.
  — Andrew Walsh, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2022
• On Thursday afternoon, as most lawmakers raced for the airport, some went to the floor to continue to snipe.
  — Jennifer Steinhauer and David M. Herszenhorn, New York Times, 14 July 2016
• Hold Baldwin to 13 points and McDermott could snipe seven 3s.
  — Drew Favakeh, Indianapolis Star, 2 Feb. 2020
• Trump hasn't endorsed here, so the candidates will continue to snipe about who's most loyal to him and his ideas about election fraud.
  — Simone Pathe, CNN, 17 Dec. 2021
• The game has taken a back seat, as players snipe at one another, speaking out on the embarrassment the Astros have wreaked on the sport.
  — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2020
• But agreeing to meet is progress, at least compared to nothing but back-channel talks and sniping on social media.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2023
• Who among us, after all, hasn't sniped at a potential crush or lied to our parents after skipping out on a high school function?
  — Alexis Gunderson, Chron, 1 Mar. 2023
• Since then, Collins has taken the helm of his own Twitter account, grabbing laughs in equal parts to relieve the exhaustion and to snipe at his own blundering peers.
  — Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, The New Republic, 24 Oct. 2023
• The scheming Roys consistently snipe at one another, as do the piano keys, but all of that gives way to loud, sweeping drama from time to time.
  — Sonia Rao, Houston Chronicle, 12 Aug. 2019
• With such a tight race, the incentive to snipe is high, particularly for a candidate like Klobuchar.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 14 Jan. 2020
• Could a long summer of sniping, not compromising, lie ahead?
  — Robert T. Garrett, Dallas News, 2 June 2023
• Jumping out to a breakaway in the second period, Calvert initially tried to snipe one past Braden Holtby but completely fanned on the shot.
  — Tyler Horka, SI.com, 21 Apr. 2018
• First of all, the spectacle of Democratic leaders at three levels sniping at one another is bad on its face for the party.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2023
• Settling down to snipe the early risers that suddenly appear, like fuzzy little ghosts, in tree crotches.
  — David E. Petzal, Field & Stream, 27 Nov. 2020
• But Republicans took the opening to snipe at a rising Democratic star.
  — Dallas News, 11 Jan. 2023
• The Suns seemed more interested in sniping at the referees rather than playing defense.
  — David Brandt, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2024
• There should be no room for the parties to snipe through competing letters and press releases or third party surrogates.
  — Dan Adams and Brian Fraley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 20 Apr. 2020
• Levy has crafted an emotional story strong enough to withstand the zings of an ironic generation, who’ve been conditioned to snipe at sincerity.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 28 Dec. 2023

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