Sentence examples for glimpsed from inspiring English sources

"glimpsed" is a correct word to use in written English
You can use it to describe something that was only seen very briefly, or even only imagined or dreamed about. Example: He only glimpsed the incredible creature before it vanished from sight.

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glimpsed

verb

Past of glimpse

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This late-night Glasgow jazz festival gig (he also plays Ronnie Scott's on 4 & 5 Jul) presents Dave with his own Drumhedz group, the rotating cast first glimpsed in the UK at last year's London jazz festival, fusing music by Hendrix, D'Angelo, Radiohead or J Dilla with their updates on distant jazz classics.

In Following the Rabbit-Proof Fence, a behind-the-scenes documentary released after the film, there are short moments where her angst as an 11-year-old is glimpsed.

Without trying, I also watched kestrels hovering and glimpsed the low dash of that thrilling ambush predator, the sparrowhawk.

With the Chilean fans celebrating ecstatically in the streets of the capital, Puskas was to be glimpsed standing in a doorway, munching monkey nuts, wearing that Budapest urchin grin which would never desert him.

She says she has glimpsed a better future and is now studying to be a teacher.

Rare then and rarer now, no westerner had glimpsed a live saola in the wild before Pulitzer Prize finalist and nature writer William deBuys and conservation biologist William Robichaud set off to search for it in the wilds of central Laos.

When the insurrection gained momentum, the military stopped trying to control the events and hundreds of thousands of Tunisians glimpsed that this was their first chance to oppose the authorities.

There was a real insight into his character glimpsed through the cameras in the tunnel before the game.

The talks – originally scheduled to wrap up at 12pm after 10 days – are now expected to run well into Saturday, as negotiators huddle over a new draft text many glimpsed for the first time only morning.

The alien flees the scene of its birth and is glimpsed at subsequent stages of its accelerated development as it picks off the crew one by one.

The files show that there were two moments during the government's bitter year-long struggle with the miners when Thatcher and her ministers "stared into the abyss" and glimpsed the possibility of defeat.

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