GLEAN in a Sentence

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10 example sentences for GLEAN, such as:

1. At present we're gleaning information from all sources.
2. I don't know the precise meaning of the word 'gleaned'.
3. You may misinterpret your cat if you try to glean a message from her eyes alone.
4. He passed on any interesting snippets of information he could glean from his colleagues.
5. Permissibly we may suppose that his wife succeeded in gleaning from him few details of the fair.

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 Meanings and Examples of GLEAN
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
glean
 v.  gather; collect gradually and bit by bit; pick up
Classic Sentence:
1  He could glean nothing from their faces; they might as well have been of stone.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LII
2  Permissibly we may suppose that his wife succeeded in gleaning from him few details of the fair.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER IV
3  Moreover, I have never gleaned anywhere but where every one else was gleaning; and, had I not done so, others would have gleaned in my place.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
4  A visit to the boy suggested itself as a means of gleaning new particulars; though it might be quite unproductive.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 2 A Lurid Light Breaks in upon a Darkened Understanding
5  He seemed to know, and he sometimes said in covert words, that some one had gleaned certain information in a certain district about a family which had disappeared.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER V—VAGUE FLASHES ON THE HORIZON
Example Sentence:
1  You may misinterpret your cat if you try to glean a message from her eyes alone.
2  Teso demonstrated his ability to glean information from an airplane's onboard computer, change the intended destination, play around with the interior lights in the cabin.
3  He passed on any interesting snippets of information he could glean from his colleagues.
4  At present we're gleaning information from all sources.
5  I don't know the precise meaning of the word 'gleaned'.