glimpse
noun
a very brief, passing look, sight, or view.
were glimpsing
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past progressiveof glimpse.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Mostly that doesn’t happen, but when it does, you have to imagine that it went that way for the writer too, hacking their way toward something they were glimpsing through the trees.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2021
A night passed and we were glimpsing the peaks of the Rockies.
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 2016
Sometimes, in such images, we read innocence into the animal world, almost as if we were glimpsing creatures cavorting in Eden before the Fall.
From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2012
Last week they were glimpsing harder than ever.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lights were glimpsing from the Fujinami mansion; more lights were visible among the shrubberies below.
From Kimono by John Paris
