Sentence examples for managed to glimpse from inspiring English sources

This was the landscape that we hardly managed to glimpse before the sphere swiftly receded into the sky, and the more minute details were lost in a general impression of freshness and lushness.

Robert Massey of the Royal Astronomical Society, who managed to glimpse the transit from a windswept, cloud-covered hill in the Cotswolds, said that events such as the transit were powerful levers for creating interest in astronomy.

Few writers glowed more brightly for me than Norman Mailer, whose reportorial astonishments and overreachings had lit with meaning anything of the nineteen-sixties that I had managed to glimpse through my freshman dorm window or on my black-and-white portable TV.

This year's Christmas Day evening will be the first in 38 years to witness a full moon, although extensive cloud cover means you may be lucky if you manage to glimpse it.

'Oh my goodness, very tense, very tense,' said Joanne Parkinson from Preston, who with her husband and daughter had managed to snatch glimpses of the play from behind a picnic table.

"I've been to Blandford dozens of times before in the hope of getting photos of the otters, but have only ever managed to get glimpses of them," Tris tells BBC Earth.

These are unprecedented numbers, and birders who managed to catch a glimpse of them were thrilled.

Damrosch has at least managed to let us glimpse the human roots of Swift's sometimes inhuman irony.

The Giants succeeded in this, and Fassel even managed to get a glimpse of cornerback Jason Sehorn for the first time.

Another highlight was during a badger survey, where I managed to get a glimpse of a badger coming out of its sett to eat in broad daylight.

He managed to get a glimpse of the village, and saw that every house and structure save the village well had been torn down.