snipes 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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1. Chan declined and the role was taken by Wesley Snipes.

2. 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.

3. In France, the breed is used for hunting in wooded areas for Pheasants, and in swamps for Snipes.

4. Wesley Snipes Auditioned for Darryl Jenks in Coming to America back in the '80s, but didn't get the role

5. 18 Black women, you see, swoon over Denzel Washington and Wesley Snipes because these men are proficient at computing differential equations.

6. Foxes, hares, rails, partridges, snipes, quails, thrushes, Beccaficos and ortolans existed in abundance in the 1760s according to Giovanni Mariti

7. SuperSet Software created Snipes, a text-mode networked computer game in 1983 to test a new IBM Personal Computer–based computer network and demonstrate its abilities.

8. Blade Trinity is the final chapter of the Snipes Collection wherein Blade starts out by killing what appears to be two vampires, which turns out to be only half right

9. Curlew definition is - any of various largely brownish chiefly migratory birds (especially genus Numenius) having long legs and a long slender down-curved bill and related to the sandpipers and snipes.

10. Battalion Commander: It's not the man in the fight, it's the fight that's in the man! Or in this case, the squad! You'll start off this game as one man lost on the battle field trying to shoot his way through waves of approaching enemies and as you continue you'll recruit snipes, soldiers, bombers, and heavy infantry! Build your squad and rush the opposing military with