Example sentences for: glimpsed

How can you use “glimpsed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Meanwhile one of the routine, strictly business clocks glimpsed through windows during the rounds of my unofficial beat could substitute for a watch.

  • His Good-bye New York (1946), the cover illustration for the exhibition catalog, has no urban feel at all, despite some free-floating girders and a row of neckties glimpsed at a Times Square stall.

  • This one tends toward unlovably brazen pokes and shoves, yet there are moments (mostly in the script) when a higher sensibility can be glimpsed through all the galumphing crumminess.

  • The next assault is different, an attack on a concrete Nazi "pillbox" that's barely glimpsed through the thick smoke, the action viewed through the eyes of the squadron's skinny, bookish translator (Jeremy Davies).

  • The true wealth of the Archbishopric of Braga, though, can be glimpsed in the cathedral’s stunning but somewhat disheveled Museu de Arte Sacra (Museum of Religious Art), crammed with gold and silver pieces, including the cross that Cabral took on his pioneering voyage to Brazil in 1500, polychromatic figures, and azulejos.


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