gleaner
Example Sentences
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It just cannot produce louder calls than it does, because as a descendant of a gleaner it is probably morphologically limited.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2023
And of course Varda herself is the film’s chief gleaner: There is, as she says, “no law governing this type of gleaning — of images, impressions, emotions.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
The poem is written from the point of view of a female gleaner - someone who collected grain left in fields by harvesters.
From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2021
She has always seen herself as something of a gleaner.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 21, 2018
She gathered up her apron like a gleaner, And madly gleaned the little ebony drumsticks.
From L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand
