was glimpsing
- past progressive of glimpse.
Example Sentences
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Reading it in the context of COVID-19, I often had a sense that I was glimpsing a lost world.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2022
Perhaps, Georgopoulos thought, he was glimpsing the workings of the brain as it processed its intentions.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 19, 2018
But these frustratingly all-too-rare moments made me feel like I was glimpsing spirited bits of greenery pushing through a crack in a sidewalk.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 30, 2014
For the first time, the Arab world was glimpsing the sickening possibility of defeat.
From Time Magazine Archive
From what I’d been able to figure out, I had to touch someone for my abilities to take hold, and even then...it was more like I was glimpsing their thoughts, rather than screwing with them.
From "The Darkest Minds" by Alexandra Bracken
