How to Use glean in a Sentence

glean

verb
  • They spent hours gleaning in the wheat fields.
  • He has a collection of antique tools gleaned from flea markets and garage sales.
  • They spent days gleaning the files for information.
  • She gleaned her data from various studies.
  • Still, there were some things to be gleaned from the day.
    — Brian Wacker, Baltimore Sun, 2 Aug. 2024
  • There are lessons that can be gleaned from the San Patricios.
    — Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2024
  • Sam Amick wrote about the news and did glean some hope from the Spurs’ side of it.
    — Zach Harper, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
  • So there were a lot of clues to be gleaned from Pyongyang.
    — CBS News, 19 June 2019
  • There are a few things that can be gleaned from the short promo video.
    — Iyaz Akhtar, PCMAG, 6 Jan. 2025
  • But there’s a deeper issue to be gleaned from the macabre mess.
    — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2023
  • Keep in mind that the list of stores is only what the FDA has been able to glean thus far.
    — Yoni Heisler, BGR, 5 Nov. 2021
  • That would be the wrong lesson from the show, if there are any lessons at all to be gleaned from it.
    — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 5 Oct. 2023
  • What this means for their future isn’t easy to glean from who else is on the list.
    — Jon Meoli, baltimoresun.com, 9 Oct. 2020
  • But that doesn’t mean their aren’t lessons to glean as the Rams try to turn their season around.
    — Adam Grosbard, Orange County Register, 5 Oct. 2024
  • The sample size may be too small to glean much about the Bulldogs’ new starter.
    — Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2019
  • Here's a clip-and-save checklist gleaned from www.fsis.usda.gov to have handy when the power goes out.
    — Susan Selasky, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2019
  • And that’s not all the information to be gleaned from shed antlers.
    — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
  • There is a lot of trivia to glean from this sojourn as well.
    — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 11 June 2020
  • Also, some of the tips here were gleaned from The Old Farmer’s Almanac website, and almanac.com/content/preparing-your-garden-winter.
    — Roxanne Washington, cleveland, 5 Oct. 2019
  • Here are five fun Christmas facts gleaned from the volume.
    — Kate Hogan, Peoplemag, 15 Dec. 2023
  • A lot can be gleaned from the position a dog chooses to sleep in too.
    — Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
  • For the new study, the researchers looked at 30 years of data gleaned from these reports.
    — Michael Franco, New Atlas, 7 Mar. 2025
  • There's a lot that can be gleaned about a brand's ethos from Instagram.
    — Michelle Li, Teen Vogue, 14 June 2019
  • How this is handled in the narrative and side quests can't be gleaned just yet.
    — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2023
  • That can be hard to glean by asking co-workers one by one.
    — Daniel Wolfe, Quartz at Work, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Sénéchal has gleaned a lot from how people have reacted to the fight.
    — Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2024
  • And what else can be gleaned from the Nuggets’ performances in Las Vegas?
    — Aaron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post, 19 July 2024
  • What does that mean (and what can parents glean from CR’s testing)?
    — Beth Ann Mayer, Parents, 11 June 2024
  • The department’s arson team has been poring over the incidents to glean more clues, but Metro Fire officials say their probe is in its early stages.
    — Darrell Smith, Sacbee.com, 15 Apr. 2025
  • Investigators believe the suspects gleaned clues from Kardashian’s social media posts at the time and exploited them to plan their crime.
    — Christie D’zurilla, Los Angeles Times, 13 May 2025

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