Sentence examples for distant glimpse of from inspiring English sources

So normally, the average runner could only hope for a distant glimpse of a Kenyan great.

Cars, usually banned from passing under the Brandenburg Gate, are permitted to do so now to catch a distant glimpse of the wrapped building.

How bad can the economy be if people pay $75 or $100 or more to get very wet and catch a distant glimpse of Tiger Woods?

On a quick pit stop in Ballymena, we got a distant glimpse of Slemish mountain where, legend has it, a young Saint Patrick raised sheep.

There is not a single piece of gratuitous nudity in the entire episode – not even a distant glimpse of a bumcheek – and there is no more gore than in Temoin Silent.

The South Carolina Historical Society leads tours of the plantation, but only every several years, so we settled for a distant glimpse of the woody, modernist gatehouse and dependencies.

Down in the depths of the holloway, you could see neither metalled roads nor telegraph poles, nor even the most distant glimpses of the outsized golf balls of the early warning radar up on Fylingdales.

There were views of the hills and the distant Pacific, along with distant glimpses of Muir Woods.

Though you can catch distant glimpses of the original reasons they fell in love, when we meet them, they have grown apart considerably -- that is to say, Mary has grown up.

A tremendous inverted bowl bells down over every horizon — affording far-distant glimpses of other people's weather.

The Elbphilharmonie, to give it its proper name, offers a sequence of visual and architectural otherworldliness that starts with distant glimpses from the centre of the city and doesn't stop when you reach your seat in one of its three auditoria, of 2,100, 550 and 150 seats.