What's the difference between glimpsed and looked?
Glimpsed
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Glimpse
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.
Looked
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Look
Example Sentences:
(1) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
(2) Other articles in the series will look at particular legal problems in the dental specialties.
(3) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
(4) I ask a friend to have a stab at, “down at cafe that does us butties”, and he said: “Something to do with his ass?” “Whose arse?” He looked panicked.
(5) Names, and the absence of them, could be important Facebook Twitter Pinterest Don’t look back … Daisy Ridley’s Rey and John Boyega’s stormtrooper Finn.
(6) I would immediately look askance at anyone who lacks the last and possesses the first.
(7) Robben said: "We've got that match, the Fifa Club World Cup, all those games to look forward to.
(8) Cook, who has postbox-red hair and a painful-looking piercing in his lower lip, was now on stage in discussion with four fellow YouTubers, all in their early 20s.
(9) Hypnosis might be looked upon as a method by which an unscrupulous person could sustain such a state of powerlessness in a victim.
(10) The only way we can change it, is if we get people to look in and understand what is happening.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dean, Clare and their baby son.
(11) There are several common clinical signs which should alert the physician to a possible diagnosis of SLE and which should condition him to look for specific clinical and laboratory findings.
(12) It is therefore necessary, to look at typical clinical manifestations, i.e.
(13) It looks like the levels of healthy eating are not as good as they should be.
(14) It comes as the museum is transforming itself in the wake of major cuts in its government funding and looking more towards private-sector funding, a move that has caused some unease about its future direction.
(15) But this is to look at the outcomes in the wrong way.
(16) We are pleased to see the process moving forward and look forward to its resolution,” a Target spokeswoman, Molly Snyder, said in an emailed statement.
(17) Think of Nelson Mandela – there is a determination, an unwillingness to bend in the face of challenges, that earns you respect and makes people look to you for guidance.
(18) That is, he believes, to look at massively difficult, interlocking problems through too narrow a lens.
(19) At first it looked as though the winger might have shown too much of the ball to the defence, yet he managed to gain a crucial last touch to nudge it past Phil Jones and into the path of Jerome, who slipped Chris Smalling’s attempt at a covering tackle and held off Michael Carrick’s challenge to place a shot past an exposed De Gea.
(20) Looks like some kind of dissent, with Ameobi having words with Phil Dowd at the kick off after Liverpool's second goal.