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