Sentence examples for try to glimpse from inspiring English sources

Why try to glimpse them now?

The group streamed down to the steep slope of the Rue de Belleville, pressing shoulder to shoulder to try to glimpse a sliver of the show.

A group of onlookers lined the street near the course to try to glimpse the president, but security kept them away from the 18th hole.

A two-year correspondence blossomed: the two would call each other in secret and try to glimpse one another through a window or a door ajar.

To see the artist's Pietà in Rome, you could wrestle the crowd and try to glimpse the top of Mary's head.

Applying to cover a "positive" or scholarly visit, such as the Nobel laureates' trip undoubtedly was, is a time-honoured way for reporters to gain legal entry to a generally inaccessible country, escape some of the controls that would otherwise apply to journalists, and try to glimpse something beyond the cliches.

Passengers were craning their necks, she said, trying to glimpse ground zero.

For the rest of his life Aubrey would be trying to glimpse things that had gone.

Modiano imagines Jean, Jean imagines Ingrid, and, through Ingrid, Modiano tries to glimpse what he can of Dora — "a place where she had been, a detail of her life".

"It could have been me -- I was going to the Gap" said Heidi Rambo, 20, who lives in the East Village and who was trying to glimpse what had happened.

Modiano imagines Jean, Jean imagines Ingrid, and, through Ingrid, Modiano tries to glimpse what he can of Dora—"a place where she had been, a detail of her life".