Explore Glean through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like reap or harvest. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Glean in a sentence
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Glean meaning
- To collect (fruit, grain, or other produce) from a field, an orchard, etc., after the main gathering or harvest.
- To collect fruit, grain, or other produce from (a field, an orchard, etc.), after the main gathering or harvest.
- To gather (something, now chiefly something intangible such as experience or information) in small amounts over a period of time, often with some difficulty; to scrape together.
Glean vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Glean
- The main meaning on this page is: To collect (fruit, grain, or other produce) from a field, an orchard, etc., after the main gathering or harvest. | To collect fruit, grain, or other produce from (a field, an orchard, etc.), after the main gathering or harvest. | To gather (something, now chiefly something intangible such as experience or information) in small amounts over a period of time, often with some difficulty; to scrape together.
- Useful related words include: reap, harvest, gather, garner.
- Possible Dutch translations are: inzamelen, oppikken, oprapen.
- In the example corpus, glean often appears in combinations such as: to glean, glean from, can glean.
Context around Glean
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 14 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Glean
- In this selection, "glean" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, startup, valuable, inspiration and information stand out and add context to how "glean" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include able to glean it was and able to glean much information. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "glean" sits close to words such as ache, advani and afi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with glean
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
But there's still plenty to glean. (7 words)
From this, one can glean that capital and investment is reshuffling to meet that ongoing saga. (16 words)
As blurry as this zoomed-in gameplay was, many felt they could glean information from the distant visuals. (18 words)
We're not guiding by quarter, but I will tell you that - and you can glean this from our prepared remarks that the improvement throughout the year means that this year's construct is going to be a little bit different than last year, right? (45 words)
The news comes after whistleblowers told Congress the government has a secret program to capture crashed or landed 'non-human' vehicles and has for decades been attempting to glean technological insights from these alleged out-of-this-world objects. (39 words)
Rep. Will Stapp, R-Fairbanks, said that from what he was able to glean, “it was the South Dakota-style sales tax with exemptions — let’s say on WIC stuff and food — but it also applied to services. (38 words)
We're not guiding by quarter, but I will tell you that - and you can glean this from our prepared remarks that the improvement throughout the year means that this year's construct is going to be a little bit different than last year, right? (45 words)
Example sentences (20)
Along the way, expect to glean valuable insights on following your ambition with confidence, building a viral brand and redefining success.
Although it’s not uncommon for performers to glean inspiration from traumatic events, not many stars can say that a near-death experience helped them realize a burning passion for the comedic arts.
As blurry as this zoomed-in gameplay was, many felt they could glean information from the distant visuals.
But if the job is done well, and the reporters can penetrate tightly-controlled operations to glean insights, they can establish themselves as national authorities on important cultural figures.
But there's still plenty to glean.
By night, various reporters and league tastemakers will seek to glean tidbits of what they intend to do in the coming league year.
Duet AI also offers enterprise search similar to services offered by Sequoia-backed unicorn startup Glean, a Google partner founded by former Google engineer Arvind Jain.
From oral sources a scholar can glean a better idea of inter-group political dynamics than of the man himself.
From this, one can glean that capital and investment is reshuffling to meet that ongoing saga.
He said he traveled to Chicago to attend his daughter’s funeral, but he wasn’t able to glean much information about the circumstances of the shooting or the investigation.
He said they “spoke to a number of different states who use mail-in ballots in early voting to try to glean and learn best practices from them.
Instead of providing us with true assessments of the market, they seem to glean their perspectives by the direction the wind is blowing at the time.
It goes to show the power of costume and how much information you can glean just from the costume.
Rep. Will Stapp, R-Fairbanks, said that from what he was able to glean, “it was the South Dakota-style sales tax with exemptions — let’s say on WIC stuff and food — but it also applied to services.
The Longfellow neighborhood group will host a series of meetings next month to glean whether people think it should be reopened as a police building or put to some other use.
The news comes after whistleblowers told Congress the government has a secret program to capture crashed or landed 'non-human' vehicles and has for decades been attempting to glean technological insights from these alleged out-of-this-world objects.
We're not guiding by quarter, but I will tell you that - and you can glean this from our prepared remarks that the improvement throughout the year means that this year's construct is going to be a little bit different than last year, right?
Arguably the trick is to glean the insights of the so-called Sage of Omaha, rather than trying to beat him.
For several weeks, the financial markets have been looking forward to Fed Chair Powell’s Jackson Hole speech, hoping they would glean some perspective on what lies ahead for interest rates.
My very limited knowledge came from biology lessons and what my friends and I could glean from the carry on in our parents’ bedrooms.
Common combinations with glean
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: