Get to know Gleanings better with 2 real example sentences, the meaning.
Gleanings meaning
plural of gleaning (“act of harvesting leftover crops”)
Using Gleanings
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of gleaning (“act of harvesting leftover crops”)
Context around Gleanings
- Average sentence length in these examples: 38 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 1 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 2 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gleanings
- In this selection, "gleanings" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 38 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, memoirs and gladstone stand out and add context to how "gleanings" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include his memoirs gleanings gladstone lamented and on the gleanings of the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gleanings" sits close to words such as aaaaand, aaah and aacl, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gleanings
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In his memoirs, Gleanings, Gladstone lamented the Prime Ministry's unseemly status in the government hierarchy: "Nowhere in the wide world," he said, "does so great a substance cast so small a shadow. (33 words)
Despised by his co-villagers and forced to subsist on the gleanings of the peasants, he combined drumming the catechism into the heads of his unruly charges with the duties of winding the town clock, ringing the church bells or digging its graves. (43 words)
Despised by his co-villagers and forced to subsist on the gleanings of the peasants, he combined drumming the catechism into the heads of his unruly charges with the duties of winding the town clock, ringing the church bells or digging its graves. (43 words)
In his memoirs, Gleanings, Gladstone lamented the Prime Ministry's unseemly status in the government hierarchy: "Nowhere in the wide world," he said, "does so great a substance cast so small a shadow. (33 words)
Example sentences (2)
Despised by his co-villagers and forced to subsist on the gleanings of the peasants, he combined drumming the catechism into the heads of his unruly charges with the duties of winding the town clock, ringing the church bells or digging its graves.
In his memoirs, Gleanings, Gladstone lamented the Prime Ministry's unseemly status in the government hierarchy: "Nowhere in the wide world," he said, "does so great a substance cast so small a shadow.