Example sentences for: glimpsed

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

  • It was a background, as I imagine it, that led naturally to the Malamudian insight that visible life is a veil, behind which can be glimpsed, by means of sympathetic insight, a vaster and more beautiful reality.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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).


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