Sentence examples for a sniper on from inspiring English sources

They came under fire from a sniper on one of the upper floors and were forced to withdraw after at least two of their men were shot, one of them fatally.

Extremely disturbing footage out of Homs purports to show a young boy shot in the back by a sniper on one of the city's streets.

Or are we marking a much more sinister incident, the shooting of Kennedy by more than one gunman, including, perhaps, a sniper on the grassy knoll firing at the president from the front?

There are also dialectics of turn-taking, as with a spotter and a sniper on a military team, where there are two defined roles but no one person assigned definitively to either.

According to Ms. Quigley, Mr. Doherty was a sniper on the rescue mission for Pfc.

"I've heard there is going to be a sniper on the roof.

Others thought there was a sniper perched on the roof of one of the many high-rise hotels in the area.

Luther must outmanoeuvre a trained sniper on a mission to gun down police officers.

(In Bosnia, in 1994, he survived a sniper attack on his car that killed two friends).

An Operational Detachment Alpha member with a sniper rifle on the roof of the main living quarters of the camp.

In the evening, a sniper attack on an Israeli truck near a Jewish settlement in Gaza resulted in the death of the civilian driver.