(n.) A short, hurried view; a transitory or fragmentary perception; a quick sight.
(n.) A faint idea; an inkling.
(v. i.) to appear by glimpses; to catch glimpses.
(v. t.) To catch a glimpse of; to see by glimpses; to have a short or hurried view of.
Example Sentences:
(1) He has another brief glimpse of goal as a deep cross finds him stretching at the back post, but it was just that — a glimpse.
(2) Many elements of the set had been spun out of background glimpses from the film, references you'd only register after an unhealthy number of viewings.
(3) From Stranraer to Stornaway there is a fair chance every primary school child in the country will catch a glimpse of their heroine's gold medal at some stage, like it or not.
(4) She believes her explorations – of their vanities, their blindnesses, their cruelties, of the brief moments in which they attain goodness, or glimpse a kind of realistic, unselfish love – to be of urgent importance.
(5) OKCupid knows how likely you are to put out on the first date , the NSA knows you eat a lot of quinoa, and all 962 of your Facebook friends have caught a glimpse of you in an ill-advised bikini.
(6) December’s unprecedented fifth MLS Cup was the Galaxy’s third in four seasons, and despite the unedifying nature of the final itself – a 2-1 win over the New England Revolution – it did, in glimpses, illustrate some of the strengths of the team.
(7) As a result, we talk about the issues and get a glimpse of each other's perspectives, into the bargain.
(8) Carney arrived at Threadneedle Street by tube shortly before 7am, ahead of most camera crews and photographers hoping to catch a glimpse of the governor feted as the rock star of central banking.
(9) And now glimpse those two old foxes, Andreotti and Mitterrand, getting together at a hotel outside Maastricht on the evening before the December 1991 summit, to work out over dinner how they will pin Kohl down to a timetable for a monetary union that was clearly intended to bind a newly (and, for them, alarmingly) united Germany into a tighter European framework.
(10) In Chicago before a crowd both relieved and delighted, he spoke with a force, clarity and determination that had scarcely been glimpsed in the 2012 campaign.
(11) It was not just a fantastic sporting occasion but a glimpse of a more noble Britain: a country learning to be at ease with disability, and passionately, generously, committed to a vision of equality of opportunity.
(12) May 28, 2014 Other players have looked livelier tonight for sure, and he's taken one too many touches on occasion, but there was a glimpse of Altidore's value in his hold up play just now.
(13) This was a tantalising glimpse of the future, with Mata pulling the strings in the middle.
(14) As my sister continues to grow emotionally and socially, I get a glimpse of the confident young woman - perhaps even a fully functioning member of society - that I hope one day she will become.
(15) This English translation permits a rare glimpse into the early medical thinking on prostatic diseases.
(16) Quite literally, in the credit sequences of Father Knows Best and Beulah , sitcoms of middle-class family life where the fences – they didn't exist around most suburban houses – can be glimpsed.
(17) It is a finely-tuned sequence of level changes and alluring glimpses, more familiar to the world of shopping malls and airport terminals than a repository of knowledge.
(18) From the vantage point of my 10-centimetre porthole, I glimpsed life forms with outlines like blown glass occasionally drifting past our lights, while small crustaceans hovered around like flies, keeping pace with our descent.
(19) I was giving them a glimpse into my exclusive lifestyle.
(20) Comment boxes across the planet boiled over with fury at the first glimpse of John Boyega removing his helmet.
Peek
Definition:
(v. i.) To look slyly, or with the eyes half closed, or through a crevice; to peep.
Example Sentences:
(1) They’ve already collaborated with folks like DOOM, Ghostface Killah and Frank Ocean; I was lucky enough to hear a sneak peek of their incredible collaboration with Future Islands’ Sam Herring from their forthcoming album.
(2) This study presents results from in vitro and in vivo experiments in rodents by the use of a PEEK-hollow fiber.
(3) To check the Hub while in an app, you use your thumb to swipe the screen from left to right, and can "peek" at the Hub's inbox.
(4) Ewen takes a peek at the Republican challenger's strategy: He will list damning statistics showing the extent to which Americans have become dependent on the federal government, from food stamps to unemployment benefits.
(5) Sure, it's bad to peek at your data but data peeking alone probably isn't going to produce nine different false positives.
(6) Oscar-winner Michael Moore dives right into hostile territory with his daring and hilarious one-man show, deep in the heart of TrumpLand in the weeks before the 2016 election.” The news broke on Twitter with Moore sharing the following tweet on Monday: Michael Moore (@MMFlint) Hey NYC- Who wants a peek @ what I've been up 2?
(7) At least director JJ Abrams had a sense of humour about the hype machine when he teased a "sneak peek" of a scanty three frames of Star Trek Into Darkness on Conan O'Brien.
(8) Journalists who have never even peeked into the IPCC report are now outraged that one wrong number appears on page 493 of Volume 2.
(9) When Dunham’s own memoir, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She’s “Learned” , was published this autumn, it was Gould who defended her (on Salon.com ) from rabid right-wing critics who characterised Dunham as a child molester for confessing to peeking at her sister’s vagina when she was seven.
(10) A peek at the source code of the now-blank site contains a hint of a future acquisition, with an empty space labelled “put announce for mtgox acq here”.
(11) Shaltai-Boltai and the missing jigsaw pieces Alexander said he was in Asia at the time, but travelled to Estonia within the past week, having first paid a trusted contact to peek into Interpol’s systems and check Russia had not yet put him on the wanted list.
(12) What in fact happened, Edward Jr said in the same letter, was that “as I sat on my bed, tears of rage flowing, remembering my childhood my anger kept building and building, and I went to my car, got the 9mm, and walked to his room, peeked in, and he was asleep.
(13) But a peek behind its algorithmic curtains suggests what it does know might be wrong.
(14) We’ll be giving you a peek behind the curtain of what makes the news and take stock of what’s gone on locally, nationally and globally.
(15) Have a peek will you … 7.46pm GMT I've not heard anything more on the Arsenal deal for Malaga's Nacho Monreal, but I presume numbers are being tapped into computers, sweaty suits are running around and papers are being shuffled vigorously.
(16) Traditionally Apple releases a sneak peek into its new software for both its Mac computers and its iPhone and iPad at WWDC each year.
(17) Still, there are pockets of cuteness to be found: tiny yuru-kyara charms dangling off backpacks or peeking from posters or construction barriers in the form of baby ducks.
(18) You can see evidence of these new lands on the Delta's fringes; mile upon mile of agri-business-owned fields peeking out behind the advertising billboards of the Cairo-Alexandria desert road.
(19) Julian Savulescu , professor of practical ethics at Oxford University, said: "Venter is creaking open the most profound door in humanity's history, potentially peeking into its destiny.
(20) Game of Throne fans are counting the days until the start of series four and to help the wait go faster, we've got a 15-minute sneak peek.