"fleeting sight" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a momentary glimpse of something, such as a beautiful scene or a person that passes quickly. For example, "I caught a fleeting sight of the Northern Lights, but it was gone before I could take a picture."
Across the Arab world, slogans ask for jobs, education, ending corruption, and accountability, but they are only a fleeting sight for most Americans.
It's a rare and fleeting sight, this emergency recall of language, and I find it touching, as though the person had reached out to pluck his words from the air before they could set about doing their disastrous work in the world, making their author seem boring or unfunny or ignorant or glib or stupid.
Over the next forty-eight hours, I caught fleeting sight of Penn brandishing a rifle; lugging old people out of his boat; bailing out the boat; and, later, just off the plane to San Francisco, cleaned up and remarkably composed, being interviewed by Larry King.
Rescue teams have dug out dozens of survivors but any joy has been fleeting amid the sight and stench of thousands of corpses decomposing under a tropical sun.
Naturally, the question arises: why try to paint impossibly complicated or fleeting subjects from sight when you can use the camera?
Little prepares drivers for the fleeting but fabulous sight that unfolds in the 10 seconds it takes for a car traveling 55 miles an hour to make the crossing.
Here the artist depicts a rare sight, a fleeting atmospheric moment in which the luminous early morning sunlight is charged with a sense of something supernatural, turning the misty sky a pinky-gray and bathing the landscape in a light, warm orange-yellow glow.
A UTV (untickable view) refers to a sighting too fleeting or hazy to be counted.
Although our cheetah sighting was fleeting – I saw its spotted back for just a moment amid a dark thicket before it bolted – the walk was a unique opportunity to view the wildlife at ground level instead of from the customary, elevated confines of a Jeep.
Good luck with that at the Chocolate and Wine Festival of Texas, a daylong indulgence at which health concerns can be set aside in favor of the fleeting euphoria of sampling everything in sight.
So while Willis will be found shooting up everything in sight this year (3), his fleeting GI Joe co-star Channing Tatum has scarcely touched a double-action shotgun since becoming Steven Soderbergh's go-to leading man.
