glean
verb (used with object)
to gather slowly and laboriously, bit by bit.
is gleaning
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present progressiveof glean (3rd person singular).present progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
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"Spring" he calls "grass"; "summer" is "gleaning"; "autumn" is "fruit"; "winter" is "rainy."
From In the Tail of the Peacock by Isabel Savory
The bruisers King and Mace fought yesterday, and the plodding person close by from Bell's Life is gleaning their antecedents.
From Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the War by George Alfred Townsend
Vain the hopes my heart is gleaning, If, long since to thee, My fond heart required unscreening, Vain my words will be!
From Poems by Denis Florence MacCarthy
