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Sniper
"Sniper" in a Sentence (19 examples)
The sniper picked off his victims one by one.
I tracked down the enemy through the sniper scope.
The sniper is driving a white van.
Well, Cupid is a terrible sniper.
Tom got shot in the head by a sniper.
Tom was the victim of a random sniper attack.
A sniper shot the lights out.
And he calls himself a sniper!
Statistics showed that few players were using the sniper rifle, so the developers reduced its reload time.
The sniper took aim at Sami.
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The sniper shot him in the head.
The British, having cleared the open field, now faced the problem of advancing through the trees into the sniper fire of several hundred Virginia militia.
No winnable seat has been found for Mr. H. L. Nathan, a powerful recruit from the Liberal ranks, and poor Mr. Wedgwood Benn, an invaluable sniper for a party in Opposition, has been out of Parliament now since 1931.
They always sniped at each other in public. German snipers were a wishy-washy lot compared with Lester and his wife.
Alexander Ovechkin is often regarded as the greatest sniper of his generation.
The real reason most snipers bid late in the auction is that they feel it helps them obtain bargains at the expense of novices who don't understand how proxy bidding works and who place bids for less than the amount they are really willing to pay.
Sniping is the process of placing bids in the closing minutes or seconds of an auction. Snipers do this to avoid bidding wars that escalate the bids to more than they want to pay. Bidders can protect themselves against snipers by bidding the absolute maximum amount they are willing to pay with eBay's proxy bidding system.
The successful sniper makes one bid only—and makes it count. Sniping happens on eBay because the end time of each auction is rigidly enforced. If you know that an auction ends at 12:01:30, you can time your snipe to hit at 12:01:29, leaving no time for any other bidders to trump your bid.
The smart sniper slips in and places the final winning bid when it's too late for the other bidder to respond.
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