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How to use excerpt in a sentence

20 example sentences · noun, verb

Excerpt means a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition. Example: “This book also has many excerpts from the newspost, which is kind of new.”

More sentences with excerpt

  • This book also has many excerpts from the newspost, which is kind of new.2012 September 17, Tycho Brahe [pseudonym; Jerry Holkins], “Intro 9”, in Passion’s Howl (Penny Arcade; 9), Portland, Ore.: Oni Press…. From the entry newspost
  • My students enjoyed doing a quick-write using this excerpt from Eve Bunting's novel SOS Titanic.2001, Lola M. Schaefer, Teaching Narrative Writing, page 43. From the entry quick-write
  • Some of the stolen excerpts on the FAQ include such sayings which are particular to certain families.1997 July 20, Lord Drake and Kytheriea, “Plagarism^([sic]) Within the Pagan Community”, in soc.religion.paganism (Usenet), retrieved 18…. From the entry magyckal
  • Nikolais's music, a little decorous as well, but the excerpt from "Graph" proving once more that Mr.1992 January 30, Jennifer Dunning, “Review/Dance; Premiere Opens Season For Nikolais and Louis”, in The New York Times, archived from the…. From the entry dehumanizer
  • Text excerpts from: An Introduction to Xenopaleontology: The Study of Ancient Extraterrestrial Life.1981 June, Joel Hagen, “Xenopaleontology”, in Heavy Metal, volume 5, number 3, page 42. From the entry xenopaleontology
  • Harcourt, Brace, and Co.: for an excerpt from Stuart Chase’s The Tyranny of Words; for E.1950 August, Leo Kirschbaum, “Acknowledgments”, in Clear Writing, New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, page v. From the entry trivium
  • Gallagher, Philippe Parreno excerpts and repeats, but uncompellingly.2007 March 2, Roberta Smith, “Visions That Flaunt Cartoon Pedigrees”, in New York Times. From the entry uncompellingly
  • The excerpt in Figure 1 below shows a list of some channel names as they appear to an IRC user.1996, Susan C. Herring, Computer-mediated Communication, page 50. From the entry channel
  • Mark the following excerpt to be played saltando.1968, Richard D. Worthing, The Development and Preliminary Evaluation of a Programmed Course of Instruction in Orchestration for the…. From the entry saltando
  • Henry’s Budé text of the Photian excerpts that he does not make clear when we have fuller versions of the Photian text.2004, Alan Cameron, Greek Mythography in the Roman World, Oxford University Press. From the entry Photian
  • In his letter to Virginia's governor excerpted below, Rolfe tries to unsort the mixture of motives that led to his decision to marry Pocahantas.2003, Edwin S. Gaustad, Mark A. Noll, A Documentary History of Religion in America to 1877, page 54. From the entry unsort
  • Interviews, excerpts from submitted tapes, and live segments are combined for a five-hour live cablecast on International Women's Day in the Boston area.1989 December 17, Kelly Gaines, “International Women's Day Videos Sought”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 23, page 2. From the entry cablecast
  • G. when I approached him with the idea of publishing excerpts from his conversations with the constant stream of people who go to visit him.1987, Dinesh Vaghela, “Publisher’s Note”, in Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, edited by Terry Newland, Mind is a Myth: Disquieting…. From the entry approach
  • An excerpt from the accompanying biographette indicates how thoroughly she has been Americanized into a working woman with a son in the advertising business.1985, Jerold Savory, Patricia Marks, The smiling muse: Victoriana in the comic press, page 24. From the entry biographette
  • These are mere excerpts of longer pieces by Sullivan on Boy George, and I have left out more pieces because of the limits of space.1981 December 1, Ronnie Allen, “The Herald: Shunning and Insulting”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 20, page 4. From the entry lineage
  • The Handel excerpts are afflicted with a combination of high surface noise from the source material as well as variably muzzy sound.1979, Journal - Association for Recorded Sound Collections. From the entry muzzy
  • Thanks largely to Straus's navy-era media connections, names such as Stalin and Eisenhower had begun to grace the young list—albeit largely in photo-heavy as-told-tos and diary excerpts.2013, Boris Kachka, Hothouse, page 58. From the entry as-told-to
  • The Maine excerpts and notes are distinguished from the others by virtue of the great amount of comment and polemic introduced by Marx in the course of his excerptings.1999, Bob Jessop, Charlie Malcolm-Brown, Russell Wheatley, Karl Marx's Social and Political Thought: Critical Assessments. From the entry excerpting
  • Every now and then I egoscan, as more and more people have been asking my permission to use excerpts from my reviews in their letters column.1996 April 18, Elayne Wechsler-Chaput, “Re: Who Reads Letters Columns?”, in rec.arts.comics.misc (Usenet), message-ID <4l5sok$50c@panix.com>. From the entry egoscan
  • Interspliced dialogue excerpts are added to the hyperpop anthem—Batman, Vicki Vale and the Joker all join Prince on what is sure to be a No. 1 hit.1989 June 18, David Silverman, “Prince bats a thousand on soundtrack”, in Chicago Tribune, page 5. From the entry hyperpop

Meaning of excerpt

  1. noun A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.
  2. verb To select or copy sample material (excerpts) from a work.

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Questions about excerpt in a sentence

How do you use excerpt in a sentence?
Excerpt is used as a noun and verb. For example: “This book also has many excerpts from the newspost, which is kind of new.”
What is a short sentence with excerpt?
“Gallagher, Philippe Parreno excerpts and repeats, but uncompellingly.”
What does excerpt mean?
Excerpt means a clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: excerpt (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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