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glean

[ UK /ɡlˈiːn/ ]
[ US /ˈɡɫin/ ]
VERB
  1. gather, as of natural products
    harvest the grapes

How To Use glean In A Sentence

  • Suffering several weeks of temporary lameness, I have been taking taxis a good deal, and offer a few gleanings from recent experience.
  • In 1819 the tenant was a person named McKechnie, as to whom I have been unable to glean any information whatever beyond the bare fact that he was a pewholder in St. James's church. The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales
  • And he turns out to be more expert than you might expect, thanks to an Aussie wife and knowledge gleaned on previous visits. Times, Sunday Times
  • As I glean from the Wikipedia article on the subject, atavistic traits are "birth defects" more than reactions to environmental changes. Eureka: What About Bob?
  • The parquet in the salon is arranged in an escalier pattern, gleaned rather than ripped off from a medieval painting. Times, Sunday Times
  • Many important lessons about music making and piano technique can be gleaned through the teaching of these attractive arrangements.
  • They use a variety of foraging styles; most commonly they glean food from foliage while they climb about on tree limbs.
  • From what I was able to glean, the news isn't good.
  • After the harvest the peasants enjoyed the collective right to glean and to graze livestock on the stubble.
  • This fundamental marketing information can easily be gleaned from the vast stores of historic customer data which hotels possess.
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