A half-silvered two-way mirror allows you to catch shadowy glimpses of the chefs' gestures in the kitchen.
Everson caught a fleeting shadowy glimpse of the pilot's seat flying past him.
There was a shadowy glimpse of curly hair.
Sometimes he caught a shadowy glimpse of them on the TV screen.
Nor could he distinguish more than a very shadowy glimpse of forms which glided close to the ground with an unpleasant sinuosity.
Sometimes she caught shadowy glimpses of a man, but she could never make out his face.
First of all, I had only shadowy glimpses of the mountaintops.
In less than a second, they may have gotten their one and only shadowy glimpse of a flash of feathers, or heard perhaps a nondescript chirp.
We feed garden birds, and enjoy catching a furtive, shadowy glimpse of an urban fox or hedgehog.
Only shadowy glimpses of people moving back and forth among the dimly lit consoles could be seen.