Examples of “glimpse” in a Sentence

noun A brief, incomplete view of something.

• She caught a glimpse of the singer as the car sped past.
• The documentary offers a glimpse into life inside the palace.
• I only got a quick glimpse of the deer before it vanished.

verb To see something briefly and incompletely.

• He glimpsed a figure moving in the darkness.
• She glimpsed her old friend in the crowd at the station.
• From the train window, we glimpsed the sea between the hills.