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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• So, what can one glean from the overwhelming success of this project?
  — Jessica Martin, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
• Otherwise there’s not too much to glean from the filing.
  — Dominic Preston, The Verge, 24 Jan. 2025
• From time to time, Yu would stop by, hoping to glean at least a small sense of where the auction was headed.
  — Cade Metz, Wired, 16 Mar. 2021
• These dusky blue birds once roamed the West in huge flocks, with hundreds alighting on piñon pines to glean nuts in the winter months.
  — Sara Van Note, WIRED, 6 Nov. 2022
• Most people aren’t going to break the bank on denim, but there are style lessons to glean from Shayk’s jeans.
  — Janelle Okwodu, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2020
• Some other trends can be gleaned from the tickets issued thus far.
  — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2023
• What is the takeaway in terms of what distinguished those two cities if there’s if there’s some lessons to be gleaned from this?
  — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2024
• Do the right thing and accountability is not some marketing slogan gleaned from AI.
  — Troy Renck, The Denver Post, 6 Mar. 2025