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Example sentences for "gleaners"

Lexicographically close words:
gleams; gleamy; glean; gleaned; gleaner; gleaning; gleanings; gleann; gleans; gleba
  1. Gleaners that are orphans, remember "the Lord liveth," and that He careth for you.

  2. The gleaners must have a will, and patience to wait.

  3. But he can tell gleaners of a farm containing sixty-six fields, some much larger than others, but all the fields grow the best corn that can be found at any market in the world.

  4. One of the gleaners looked with a very wishful eye over the gate of the eighth field, and she desired to be among the gleaners, but there was a notice that "trespassers will be prosecuted.

  5. On his return, he met several other gleaners who were seeking a field to glean in.

  6. Reapers followed, bearing emblems of the season of abundance, and gleaners closed the train.

  7. A dance of the reapers and gleaners followed, the threshers flourished their flails, and the whole went their way.

  8. I was only wishing that the McGees lived in Martindale, so's our Gleaners could make 'em some clothes, like we did for Fern and Rivers Dillon.

  9. Because these hardy gleaners can pick up a living almost anywhere, they do not need to make very long journeys every spring and autumn.

  10. Evelyn is right about what the Gleaners used to be, but since her aunt has taken up the work, they are doing lots of real missionary work.

  11. She certainly has her hands full with her Sunday School class, the Gleaners Missionary Band and the Young People's Society, for she is our president this term.

  12. The small heaps of grain gathered by the gleaners had changed into a harvest richer than the field had ever produced before.

  13. Sometimes when the gleaners were busily at work one of them would cry out joyfully, “Ah, there comes the lady of the castle.

  14. Not Judea's hills alone Have earth's weary gleaners trod, Not to heirs of David's throne Is it given to "reign with God.

  15. She takes it to the highest eminence near, and waves it, and her fellow-reapers and gleaners shout huzzas.

  16. To the Tree Trappers; most of the Warblers belong to this, while some have joined the Sky Sweepers, and a few the Ground Gleaners and Seed Sowers.

  17. A member of the guilds of Ground Gleaners and Tree Trappers.

  18. A member of the guilds of Ground Gleaners and Tree Trappers, and a good Citizen in its nesting haunts.

  19. Johnny and Jenny make a great fuss, but they are really very fond of each other and make the very best of citizens, eating no fruits and being officers in the guilds of Ground Gleaners and Tree Trappers.

  20. A shy neighbor but a valuable Citizen, belonging to the Ground Gleaners as well as Sky Sweepers.

  21. A Weed Warrior and a member of the Tree Trappers and Ground Gleaners in nesting-time.

  22. This Woodpecker is not only a beautiful, but a useful, Citizen, doing almost as much work in the guild of Ground Gleaners as the Meadowlark, besides being a Tree Trapper and Seed Sower.

  23. Belongs both to the Ground Gleaners and the Wise Watchers.

  24. A dismal and noisy neighbor for three mouths in the year, making itself hateful by destroying grain, and the eggs and young of song birds; but for the other nine a good citizen, working in the guilds of Ground Gleaners and Wise Watchers.

  25. I am not inclined to quarrel with the condition that requires the stocks to be removed ere the gleaners gain admittance; because many would be tempted to pilfer, and besides, the ground on which they stand could not be reached.

  26. At that time the gleaners in our district were divided into two gangs or parties.

  27. They are very active gleaners and of inestimable value to man.

  28. They are active gleaners of the underbrush, keeping well within the depths of tangled thickets.

  29. The wheat had been carried from it only this afternoon, and the gleaners in their cotton bonnets were coming in.

  30. The gleaners were busy in the square paddock: Mrs. Todhetley spoke to some as we passed.

  31. The gleaners used to use them to thresh out their collections.

  32. The gleaners had a way of binding up the collected wheatstalks together so that a very large quantity was held tightly in a very small compass.

  33. In this little but important book he has made the all-important distinction which escaped Huber's notice, and separated the great wax-making architects from the little gleaners and nurses.

  34. The little gleaners gather a wide experience Of the country and of life.

  35. These are the first delegates despatched by the pollen-gleaners to ascertain the state of the season and attend the festival of the early blooms.

  36. Next to these disgorgers of honey and gleaners of pollen-dust, it would be well to consult other Hymenoptera, Wasps who devote themselves to the chase and pile their cells one after the other, in a row, showing the relative age of the cocoons.

  37. It was not usual to invite the gleaners to share the lunch with the farm hands, but Boaz was especially kind to Ruth.

  38. The owner of a grain field would be afraid of bad luck to the harvest if he should refuse to let the gleaners in after the reapers.

  39. The picture of the Gleaners especially has that so-called "quality of circumambient light" which circulates about the objects, so to speak, and gives them position in space.

  40. Now come the gleaners into the field to claim the time-honored privilege of gathering up the scattered ears still lying on the ground.

  41. The same theory was suggested when the Sower and the Gleaners appeared.

  42. The gleaners are three women of the poorer peasant class.

  43. Moving forward in the stooping posture, with eyes fixed upon the ground, the figures of the gleaners have been compared to great grasshoppers, making their odd, irregular, hopping progress across the field.

  44. When we compare the picture with the others we have seen in the same general style of composition, showing a level plain with figures in front, we note how much more detail the background of the Gleaners contains.


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