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.
• How much can the Aztecs glean from that game?
  — Kirk Kenney, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Sep. 2025
• There are lessons to be gleaned from what’s come before, though.
  — Tom Sietsema, Washington Post, 17 Jan. 2026
• There are a few things that can be gleaned from the short promo video.
  — Iyaz Akhtar, PCMAG, 6 Jan. 2025
• There’s a lot that can be gleaned from a few minutes of hands-on time.
  — Dieter Bohn, The Verge, 9 Oct. 2018
• 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
• There are also life lessons to glean from pinball.
  — Charlie Lapastora, CBS News, 16 May 2026
• But there’s a deeper issue to be gleaned from the macabre mess.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2023
• There are lessons that can be gleaned from the San Patricios.
  — Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2024
• 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
• A lot can be gleaned from the position a dog chooses to sleep in too.
  — Jonathan Granoff, Newsweek, 29 Jan. 2025
• What else is there to be gleaned from going behind the curtain?
  — James Folta, Literary Hub, 5 Aug. 2025
• How was the percentage gleaned?
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2025
• Some other trends can be gleaned from the tickets issued thus far.
  — Emily Opilo, Baltimore Sun, 8 June 2023
• Sénéchal has gleaned a lot from how people have reacted to the fight.
  — Esther Zuckerman, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2024
• And that’s not all the information to be gleaned from shed antlers.
  — Bob Holmes, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Aug. 2023
• So, what can one glean from the overwhelming success of this project?
  — Jessica Martin, TIME, 5 Aug. 2024
• But their identities can be gleaned from past news accounts.
  — Tony Saavedra, Oc Register, 22 Oct. 2025
• Many political nuggets to be gleaned from the show's first week.
  — Brenna Williams, CNN, 8 June 2018
• How this is handled in the narrative and side quests can't be gleaned just yet.
  — Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2023
• There's a lot that can be gleaned about a brand's ethos from Instagram.
  — Michelle Li, Teen Vogue, 14 June 2019
• 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
• Sam Amick wrote about the news and did glean some hope from the Spurs’ side of it.
  — Zach Harper, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
• Clues as to the butterflies origins had to be gleaned from other datasets.
  — Marta Musso, WIRED, 5 July 2024
• Companies like Hume try to glean emotions based on things like tone of voice.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 15 Oct. 2024
• So Leavitt has also gleaned a few lessons about endurance.
  — Selome Hailu, Variety, 4 Feb. 2026