Example Sentences

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Experts said they were gleaning lessons from the blaze, especially in making forests more resilient to fire.

From New York Times • Jul. 22, 2021

But the officials have said that the dossier added material and buttressed what American law enforcement and spy agencies were gleaning from other sources.

From New York Times • Jan. 9, 2018

Our knowledge was basically what we were gleaning from headlines.

From Time • Sep. 24, 2010

“The Nixon Defense” offers tantalizing hints that White House aides were gleaning information from the telephone wiretap that had been secretly placed in the DNC’s Watergate headquarters.

From Washington Post

We were gleaning new impressions at a great rate.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)