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Example sentences for "gleaned"

Lexicographically close words:
gleaming; gleamings; gleams; gleamy; glean; gleaner; gleaners; gleaning; gleanings; gleann
  1. And her mother-in-law said unto her, "Where hast thou gleaned to-day?

  2. And she went, and came, and gleaned in the field after the reapers: and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging unto Boaz.

  3. So she gleaned in the field until even, and beat out that she had gleaned: and it was about an ephah[148-2] of barley.

  4. The American tracts may be gleaned in Haven's list.

  5. Much can be gleaned from the local histories: W.

  6. Something has also been gleaned from Eelking, ii.

  7. Much can be gleaned from Tryon and Colden's letters to Dartmouth in N.

  8. A long conversation, in a very low tone, now took place between the pair, from which I gleaned some interesting particulars.

  9. More facts were gleaned from the Caterpillar, who had joined the bridge-players, but played seldom.

  10. By the time Desmond joined him, he had gleaned a knowledge which fascinated a friend of like sensibility and imagination.

  11. Very little is to be gleaned from the subsequent parts of the voyage, until they reached the gulf of St. Lawrence.

  12. I gleaned from the best sources I could, and believe that the late Professor Frederick Hall was the only person to whom I was indebted even for occasional instructions in these departments.

  13. From these sources I gleaned the following facts.

  14. Furs were gleaned with an iron hand, and rum was given out with an iron heart.

  15. These facts are to be gleaned from the narrative.

  16. They have been gleaned from the traditionary songs of the Chippewas of the north, whose villages extend through the region of lake Superior, and to the utmost sources of the Mississippi.

  17. It is time, too, for many are the rumours of spies who have crept in and gleaned valuable information from the wounded.

  18. He soon built a fire of some sticks which he gleaned from one or two twisted and gnarled evergreens that had wandered above timber line and cooked the birds over the embers.

  19. Of course, the knowledge that my real father was dead, had been dead a long time, caused me a feeling of sadness, yet strangely enough the little knowledge that I had gleaned from this strange old man brought a sense of relief to me.

  20. He got up and gleaned his aviator's helmet from a branch of the mahogany hatrack and looked at it dubiously, wishing that it was his Big Four Stetson instead.

  21. They drove to a rendezvous previously agreed upon with Bill Hayden and gleaned what news the boys had to tell.

  22. What I shall bring back will be legitimate news of international importance, gleaned in a legitimate way.

  23. Considering that it was supposed to be a typical New England village, North Newbury-bunkport did not appear at first glance to answer to the customary specifications, such as I had gleaned from my reading of novels of New England life.

  24. Occasionally round their fires at night I managed to involve them in disputes regarding their ancestors, and on these occasions gleaned much of the information of which I was in want.

  25. It was impossible to follow the infantry attack in detail, but its success could be gleaned from the fact that the German gun fire, which gradually was taken up again, had to be advanced in the direction of the fortress.

  26. Her ideas had been gleaned from some pictures of Highland costumes which she had often seen at her Cousin Mag's, and she had determined to take the name of the Knight of Snowdoun, knowing and loving well her "Lady of the Lake.

  27. Her mother never mentioned Grandmother Corner's name, and from old Landy Nan gleaned all that she knew of her.

  28. Here and there a square of rich, black loam, freshly turned, bespoke the forehanded farmer; while in the fields of his neighbors straggling groups of cattle and hogs gleaned half-heartedly in the standing roughage.

  29. Her father had cast his lot with the mammon of unrighteousness and gleaned the pleasant result of the proceeding.

  30. I've come here to give ye a word of warning, a friendly hint I gleaned up at the Castle.

  31. As for the newspapers, nothing could be gleaned from them.

  32. And touching on this accusation of morbidity and sickness, may there not be gleaned from Shakespeare and Goethe many mad, half-mad, and brain-sick men and women?

  33. Indeed, an ironic self-contradiction may be gleaned from a study of Ibsen; each play seems to deny the conclusions of the previous one.

  34. I have not attempted to controvert the main facts of Ireland's grievances, which they frequently told me they had gleaned from Froude and Lecky.

  35. I am sure that if we gleaned in this field we should not have half so many naughty tempers nor a tenth as much pride, nor a hundredth part so much sloth.

  36. Through her he gleaned his first reverence for the intellectual power of woman, and to her he owed the happiest days of his life.

  37. The following, with two exceptions, have been gleaned from court records where originally they were submitted as evidence in suits at law.

  38. But public opinion at a later date changed somewhat and here are a few items gleaned from Boston newspapers that demonstrate the fact that human nature two centuries ago was much the same as at the present time.

  39. She left him a moment, then came back and rattled off a string of French, from which he gleaned that he was voulez-vous'd to seat himself and attend a little moment.

  40. It's all we do do," said the lady of the embonpoint, whose first name by now he had gleaned as Winifred.

  41. The Holy Scriptures tell us of an humble handmaiden who long, faithfully, and patiently gleaned in the rich fields of her wealthy kinsman, and we are told further that at last, in spite of her humble antecedents she found favor in his sight.

  42. The whole field of fact and fancy has been gleaned and garnered.


  43. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gleaned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.