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.

  • 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).

  • Unfortunately, its ornate interior can only be glimpsed from outside, since visitors are no longer allowed within.

  • 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.

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


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