(1) Archaeologists still argue about what it originally held, but visitors can now peer inside and see gleaming in the darkness a statue of Taharqa, loaned by Southampton museums.
(2) Every bit of her gleams with a sweet and shiny polish: which is probably a natural residue of her southern-belle charm, but is probably also partly attributable to the professional gloss the 20-year-old seems to have acquired with remarkable ease over her nascent two-year film career.
(3) Half a dozen bodyguards fan out from the trucks, and when they are in position, the Ace slowly climbs down from the driving seat of his gleaming landcruiser.
(4) Crumbling infrastructure will be replaced with new roads, bridges, tunnels, airports and railways gleaming across our beautiful land,” Trump said in his speech before Congress last Tuesday as he renewed a campaign promise, vowing to ask Congress for a $1tn infrastructure investment package financed through public and private capital.
(5) In this she differs from both Jeremy Corbyn and the gleaming-eyed Brexiteers, who share a belief in a route-map to the promised land.
(6) Now Murray and his team-mates – whoever they may be in the final, although his brother, Jamie, is nailed on after reaching two major doubles finals this year – will stare more history in the face, a chance to lift the gleaming goblet for the first time since Fred Perry helped win it in 1936, the year he abandoned British tennis for a life among the professionals in America.
(7) Downing Street has refused to release the guest list for this year's bash at the private Hurlingham members' club in Fulham, west London, but the gleaming Rolls-Royces and Jaguars streaming through the gates gave a hint of the wealthy passengers heading inside.
(8) The eyes gleamed with fury, like the glimpse of flame you have on opening the air vent in a wood stove.
(9) Of course the polarisation of old and young rests on a fallacy, if not a downright lie: that all young people possess perfect skin and gleaming hair, have non-stop sex, are bursting with energy and are never lonely.
(10) Tsipras of Athens – a gripping drama entering its final act | Larry Elliott Read more Perhaps you have an image of Deutschland as being a nation of highly skilled, highly rewarded workers in gleaming factories.
(11) At one point, one knelt in front of the gleaming coffin topped with white roses.
(12) At the meeting Burragubba played the didgeridoo, a performance he repeated outside the bank’s gleaming glass and steel headquarters in the City.
(13) In the flesh, though, he's more Bruce Forsyth than Bruce Willis: sweet-eyed, gleaming-teethed, with a keen ear for innuendo and a frankly mucky chuckle.
(14) Speaking in Donetsk's Victoria hotel – a gleaming multistorey edifice next to the city's state-of-the-art Donbass football stadium – Taruta says he's confident presidential elections due on 25 May will take place.
(15) We put stuff in there that was not really that good, but fortunately there were a couple of gleaming things that everyone remembers while they've forgotten the dross."
(16) For mid-century Americans, these gleaming marketplaces provided an almost utopian alternative to the urban commercial district, an artificial downtown with less crime and fewer vermin.
(17) Photograph: Supplied by LMK Earlier this year, the Post – whose traffic numbers reached a record 83.1m unique visitors in September 2016, a 40% year-on-year increase – moved from its former base to a gleaming, light-filled building on K Street, where reporters sit cheek-by-jowl with software engineers.
(18) This sort of rabid protectionism might feel depressingly inevitable in the gleaming, super-efficient first world of tournaments such as Germany 2006.
(19) Behind 300 metres of gleaming chain-link fence, men in high-vis jackets paced and measured, while one man stood and watched.
(20) The oil boom has led to an influx of luxury brands and gleaming Rolls Royce showrooms and upmarket shopping malls studded with Gucci, Lacoste and Prada stores line the streets of downtown Baku.
Gleaning
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Glean
(n.) The act of gathering after reapers; that which is collected by gleaning.
Example Sentences:
(1) The hosts had resisted through the early stages, emulating their rugged first-half displays against Manchester United and Arsenal here this season, and even mustered a flurry of half-chances just before the interval to offer a reminder they might glean greater reward thereafter.
(2) Information and titles for this bibliography were gleaned from printed indexes and university medical center libraries.
(3) Ministers can glean vital gossip about cabinet reshuffles if they keep on the right side of their drivers, who form the most high-class grapevine in Britain as they wait in the Speaker's courtyard at Westminster while their charges vote in the Commons.
(4) One of the insights gleaned during the Great Depression was that it does not make a lot of sense for governments to try to balance budgets during a severe downturn, because tax increases and spending cuts reduce demand.
(5) With a high level of English gleaned from an Erasmus stint in Oxford, she was eager to move to London.
(6) We have compared cerebral aneurysms in 79 patients with APKD gleaned from the literature to the sporadic aneurysm cases reported by the Cooperative Study to determine if there are significant biological differences between these two groups.
(7) The cytological features gleaned from fine needle aspiration biopsy are described.
(8) Data were gleaned at two points in time, spanning 3-year intervals, from subjects ranging in age from early to late adolescence.
(9) Facebook's decision was a hit with online advertisers eager to glean as much data as possible on its millions of users, but has been a constant source of concern for the public.
(10) Although this method was labor intensive, the amount of data gleaned from the manipulation of wild populations more than compensated for such costs.
(11) In so far as can be gleaned , the 120,000 families whose feral ways Mr Pickles and the prime minister like pointing to were totted up using outdated surveys concerned not with the school skiving, crime and loutishness that dominated yesterday's spin.
(12) She had to battle to live every day – as you might glean from The Bell Jar.
(13) In 18 of these 29 (62%) patients, the information gleaned from the images appeared to influence the surgical management.
(14) However, a great deal of information can be gleaned from relatively simple recording techniques that are easily adapted to office practice.
(15) A police officer who for seven years lived deep undercover at the heart of the environmental protest movement, travelling to 22 countries gleaning information and playing a frontline role in some of the most high-profile confrontations, has quit the Met, telling his friends that what he did was wrong.
(16) Should it work, customers should be able to glean easier comparisons about the cost of banking across different providers.
(17) But there’s a disconnect between that work and the advantage they glean from it.
(18) A number of commentators have observed that the global financial crisis was good for economic history, because it directed attention to previous crises and to the insights that could be gleaned from studying them.
(19) Bryant asked if members of the Sky board had access to any of the information gleaned from phone hacking, saying he believed that they had.
(20) Some sense of the scale of all this can be gleaned from the EU lobby register , where just over 6,500 businesses, trade unions, NGOs and professional lobbyists have supplied basic information on what they do and how much they spend.