Example sentences for: glimpsed

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Spurling informs us that the pattern on the wallpaper and tablecloth comes from a bolt of blue cotton cloth that Matisse glimpsed from a bus and that in the course of revising the painting he changed the background from blue to red.

  • In Full Fathom Five, the murk grows more evocative; the enticing detail is a kind of small crossbow shape, in yellow and orange, glimpsed through the submarine tangle of a surface encrusted with nails, buttons, coins, and cigarette butts.

  • Their forbidding exteriors hide some of Palma’s most inviting courtyards, which can be glimpsed through the heavy metal grilles.


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