Snipe in example sentence

Levin was not so lucky: he fired at the first snipe too near, and missed; he followed it with his gun when it had already risen, but at that instant another rose just at his feet and diverted his attention, and he missed again.

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You look at the menus in New York City restaurants 150 years ago, 200 years ago, you'll see snipe, woodcock, grouse, dozens of ducks, dozens of geese.

We witness lots of personality clashes, watching how these self-absorbed Hollywood types in the cast snipe at each other.

I didn't snipe about the lack of characterisation, and I didn't berate the acting.

'I don't know whether we shall get any snipe, but there are plenty of woodcock, only one must go early.

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