Sample Sentences for
glimpse
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  • From atop its walls, one can catch a glimpse of Africa.  (source)
  • Sometimes, when we are lucky, we catch a glimpse of the moon through the skylight in the food court.  (source)
    glimpse = quick look
  • Winnie caught just a glimpse of it as it scissored away from shore.  (source)
    glimpse = quick view
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  • My own little glimpse of what Isaac is going through.  (source)
    glimpse = a quick look giving a partial understanding
  • I glimpsed Dad as I left, his face frozen in the dark, the light from the TV leaping across his square glasses.  (source)
    glimpsed = briefly saw
  • ...the glimpses of the wild elephants browsing miles away;  (source)
    glimpses = quick looks
  • THEY SPOKE QUIETLY under the clouds, glimpsing occasionally a gash of moon or of darkness, and otherwise seeing ripples and churns of city-lit gray.†  (source)
  • There are way too many people and way too much curly hair for me to catch a glimpse of Kenya.  (source)
    glimpse = quick view
  • I stared at my brother, whom I had glimpsed only a few times in two years.†  (source)
  • I barely catch glimpses of houses in the brown hills in the distance.†  (source)
  • He walked for at least a quarter of an hour before glimpsing the first beds of rushes along the riverbanks.†  (source)
  • If you look to your left, you may catch a glimpse of them now.  (source)
  • Out of the corner of her eye she glimpsed Gitl.†  (source)
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