How to use "glean" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "glean" in popular movie and book plots

  • Akiva and Liraz escape and bring his body to Karou, but because they did not glean his soul, he cannot be resurrected.  - Daughter of Smoke and Bone (trilogy)
  • Will and Holly are able to glean from the creature that his name is Cha-Ka and that his people are called "Pakuni".  - Cha-Ka
  • They eventually find Levine, who is overjoyed at the trove of information he can glean from this "lost world".  - The Lost World (Crichton novel)
  • Baltar asserts that only he can communicate with it, but Roslin seems able to glean information from it as well.  - The Hub (Battlestar Galactica)
  • By early dawn, the searchers converge at the military hospital in Abbottabad to glean information from the injured soldiers.  - 1971 (2007 film)
  • They interrogate the hostages harshly, questioning their honesty and trying to glean useful information, to no avail.  - Inside Man
  • The film tells the story of a young boy, Manuk, who roams a seemingly deserted town to glean and recycle the debris of war.  - Birthday Boy (film)
  • Cooper goes to visit him, hoping to glean some details about the house's sinister past.  - Cold Creek Manor
  • As the fight continues in the ocean, Psylocke is able to glean some information about the Marauders from Sabretooth's mind.  - Mutant Massacre
  • He is able to glean from their conversation what has happened, and confronts them.  - Nicholas Nickleby

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