snipe in English

noun
1
a wading bird of marshes and wet meadows, with brown camouflaged plumage, a long straight bill, and typically a drumming display flight.
But with the help of his son and his father, he managed to find time to ensure his hectares became an ideal home for lapwings, redshanks, snipes and curlews.
verb
1
shoot at someone from a hiding place, especially accurately and at long range.
the soldiers in the trench sniped at us
2
make a sly or petty verbal attack.
the state governor constantly sniped at the president
verb

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "snipe" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "snipe", or refer to the context using the word "snipe" in the English Dictionary.

1. Here, snipe.

2. It's a snipe.

3. I found the snipe.

4. Come on out, snipe.

5. Genus Capellirallus – Snipe-rail Genus Vitirallus – Viti Levu rail.

6. Have you ever heard of a " snipe "?

7. There no such thing as a snipe!

8. The avocet snipe-eel (Avocettina infans) is a snipe eel of the family Nemichthyidae, found in all oceans except the Mediterranean and the eastern Pacific, at depths between 50 and 4,500 m.

9. But this snipe had a long tail and looked more like a large mouse.

10. It is the most common migrant snipe in southern India, Sri Lanka and much of Southeast Asia.

11. 18 It was a jack snipe, bobbing rhythmically on green legs in the shallow water.

12. 8 This would deprive wading birds such as curlew and snipe of an ideal breeding sanctuary.

13. (noun) Specialities of the reserve: Tussock sedge, bog pimpernel, bog pimpernel, Bogbean, southern marsh orchid, reed bunting, snipe, grass snake.

14. Aerodynamic measurements with wings and total preparations showed that the snipe has medium to low gliding performance.

15. The Backsnipe is a technique that lets you snipe a cs at the city that the Biremes live

16. Billiardly Blanket in image file could hold us up any baby for you to snipe from a satellite

17. Synonyms for Bootless errand include wild-goose chase, fool's errand, lost cause, merry chase, merry dance, red herring, snipe hunt, vain attempt, wasted effort and …

18. Birds in their non-breeding range use a variety of wetlands, often with common snipe, but may be found also in drier habitats than their relative.

19. Several endemic Chatham Island bird species have since been reintroduced to the island, Chatham snipe in 1970, black robin in 1976, Chatham tomtit in 1987 and shore plover in the 1990s.

20. The Gallinago snipes have a nearly worldwide distribution, the Lymnocryptes snipe is restricted to Asia and Europe and the Coenocorypha snipes are found only in the outlying islands of New Zealand.

21. Associated with the wild-plant diversity of the "unimproved" grasslands is usually a rich invertebrate fauna; there are also many species of birds that are grassland "specialists", such as the snipe and the great bustard.

22. Brækstad, transl., Folk and Fairy Tales, page 86: We heard the unpleasant Braying of the snipe, now near to us, now far off, now high up in the air, now right over our heads, and suddenly it seemed close to our ears, now on all sides, still without our

23. Actinometers, including a Watkins alloy-body Standard exposure meter in maker's tin, two brass-barrel meters, a Junior barrel meter; three Wynne's Infallible meters; Watkin's Snipe meter, Focal Plane meter, four standard Bee meters, Autochrome Bee meter, Studio meter, Print meter, Indoor meter, Indoor meter US Dial meter, Fall Roll-Film meter, the majority in maker's boxes; a K meter; Alfred