glimpse

Example Sentences

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Oil futures markets offer a glimpse of where things might be headed.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

While fans only caught a quick glimpse of Carla — who is said to be picking up extra shifts elsewhere — her name lingers in the script.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2026

Between the graphs and equations, he says, you glimpse the people behind the missions; what their families were going through, what they knew and did not yet know as they pushed into the unknown.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

Because its light has traveled for more than 13 billion years, it provides a glimpse into the universe when it was less than a billion years old.

From Science Daily • Mar. 30, 2026

He could just glimpse, at the far end, a row of six men and six women, some cloaked, some bare-headed, one with a tattooed line down her chin, sitting on twelve vast chairs.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell