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

This most harassing and oppressive form of taxation had long been the cause of incurable trouble, aggravated by the rapacity with which it was enforced, even to the pitiful collections of the gleaner.

From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Lea, Henry Charles