glimpse

in a sentence

My own little glimpse of what Isaac is going through.  (source) John Green, The Fault in Our Stars, 2012

From atop its walls, one can catch a glimpse of Africa.  (source) Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist, 1988

Sometimes, when we are lucky, we catch a glimpse of the moon through the skylight in the food court.  (source) Katherine Applegate, The One and Only Ivan, 2012

Or is he stealing a glimpse of the sky again?  (source) Markus Zusak, The Book Thief, 2005

I glimpsed Dad as I left, his face frozen in the dark, the light from the TV leaping across his square glasses.  (source) Tara Westover, Educated, 2018

...the glimpses of the wild elephants browsing miles away;  (source) Rudyard Kipling, The Jungle Book, 1894

For a moment it was something else—something I was glimpsing for the first time—the cold tiles, the draft that moved about me, the nice solid fact that someday I was going to end up in a coffin myself.†  (source) Paul Zindel, The Pigman, 1968

Grant had a glimpse of its toothy beak and the furry body.  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

Because S.Q. had glimpsed the note, Milligan had chosen to be caught.†  (source) Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society, 2007

I get glimpses of it every so often—the Dauntless cheering when I jumped off the building, the net of arms that caught me after zip lining—but they are not enough.†  (source) Veronica Roth, Divergent, 2011

Once, glimpsing the road, I saw the car's lights some distance off, headed south.†  (source) Louis L'Amour, The Broken Gun, 1966

Winnie caught just a glimpse of it as it scissored away from shore.  (source) Natalie Babbitt, Tuck Everlasting, 1975

I stared at my brother, whom I had glimpsed only a few times in two years.†  (source) Leon Leyson, The Boy on the Wooden Box, 2013