gleanings
Example Sentences
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Among its gleanings, the poll found that the American dream is alive and well, at least among those who came from abroad, despite the sour mood that suffuses much of the country.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 30, 2023
Below, the pop and jazz critics of The New York Times plunge into the archival gleanings of this year's most notable boxed sets, greatest hits and reissued albums.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 11, 2010
It's clearly the gleanings of a lifetime's reading, and Crotty has walked a nice line between poetry that deals with Ireland, with questions of Irish character and history, and poetry qua poetry.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 22, 2010
As she picked up the gleanings in the gathering dusk, Ms. Baldwin recalled people telling her that she and Ms. Merrow couldn’t grow wheat on the East End, that the climate wasn’t right.
From New York Times ● Jul. 31, 2010
Sarai’s determination, from her moths’ gleanings of the night’s first crop of dreams, was that Soulzeren had told her husband but no one else of the...encounter...at the citadel.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
