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How to use extract in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb

Extract means something that is extracted or drawn out. Example: “I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.”

Examples of extract by meaning

nounA portion of a book, document, recording etc. incorporated distinctly in another work (for written or spoken words...

  • I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.

nounA decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and...

  • extract of beef
  • extract of dandelion

nounAny substance extracted is such a way, and characteristic of that from which it is obtained.

  • quinine is the most important extract of Peruvian bark.

verbTo draw out; to pull out; to remove forcibly from a fixed position, as by traction or suction, etc.

  • to extract a tooth from its socket, a stump from the earth, or a splinter from the finger
  • Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847
  • There is, in fact, growing recognition in the Department that giving free rein to the open access operators will extract revenue from Great British Railways.2025 March 5, Christian Wolmar, “GBR: just how clear are the government's objectives?”, in RAIL, number 1030, page 41

verbTo withdraw by squeezing, distillation, or other mechanical or chemical process. Compare abstract (transitive verb).

  • to extract an essential oil from a plant
  • It helps with digestion and enables people to extract a lot more calories from their food than would otherwise be possible.2013 June 29, “A punch in the gut”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, pages 72–3

verbTo pick out; to cite or reproduce a snippet of.

  • extract a passage from a text.
  • extract a line from a song.
  • extract a clip from a video

verbTo select parts of a whole.

  • We need to try to extract the positives from the defeat.

verbTo determine (a root of a number).

  • Please extract the cube root of 27.
  • Nackybal was thoroughly examined, both in cubing and extracting, from the table that Louit had provided.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

More sentences with extract

  • The mine was worked until the last scrap of ore had been extracted.From the entry work
  • The admixture of vanilla extract in the dough improved the pastries' flavor.From the entry admixture
  • Now that the motor's dead you can reach in and extract the spark plugs.From the entry dead
  • Our new process for extracting needles from haystacks is extremely slick.From the entry slick
  • So far there are no differences among the protiums extracted at various labs, except for concentration levels.From the entry protium
  • We worked the mine to exhaustion, there's nothing left to extract.From the entry exhaustion
  • The exhausted mine was worthless once all the ore had been extracted.From the entry exhausted
  • I put a drip of vanilla extract in my hot cocoa.From the entry drip
  • The snake milker massages the glands to extract the full measure of venom during each milking.From the entry milker
  • Given the superstring "cathode", we can extract the substrings "cat", "hod", and "ode".From the entry superstring
  • Literature-based knowledge vendors often claim to lease various products, including algorithmically extracted facts, and human-curated literature references.From the entry curated
  • The filtered extract of the mash is the feedstock for the fermenter.From the entry feedstock
  • I read this extract as being extremely pessimistic.From the entry as
  • The runners spurted to the last lap as if they had extracted new energy from the applauds of the audience.From the entry spurt
  • Vanilla extract makes these cookies taste great, but the straight extract tastes bad because the alcohol hasn't evaporated yet.From the entry vanilla extract
  • An extract of rooibos and chamomile makes a refreshing infusion.From the entry infusion
  • Some animals reingest their own faeces to extract further nutrients.From the entry reingest
  • The perfumes of plants like jasmine could only be extracted by enfleurage, as other methods of the time would denature the scents.From the entry enfleurage
  • In this picture he is performing his famous Yogi trick of swallowing a package of needles and some thread and extracting the needles threaded.From the entry yogi
  • I had responsibility for safely extracting SD cards and manually uploading footage onto the server.2023, Martin MacInnes, In Ascension, Atlantic Books, page 44. From the entry sd
  • If you fear veggies, soups are a great way to extract the beneficial nutrients safely.2022 October 7, Hyde (@BreatheLesss), Twitter, archived from the original on 14 Aug 2023. From the entry -maxx
  • The alloy specimens were extracted from homogenized plates using wire-EDM and allowed for thermal treatment (betatization).2021 May 18, T. Kalinga, S.M. Murigendrappa, S. Kattimani, “Pseudoelastic Behavior of Boron-Doped β₁-Type Cu-Al-Be Shape Memory Alloys”…. From the entry betatize
  • The inhibitive role of Esfand seed extract (ESE) was studied in 3.5% NaCl medium.2020 September 10, Mehdi Tabatabaei Majd et al., “Steel corrosion lowering in front of the saline solution by a nitrogen-rich source of…. From the entry esfand
  • They extracted a ninth boy on Tuesday, the Thai Navy said, with reports suggesting two more.2018 July 10, “Cave rescue: Final push under way in Thailand”, in bbc.com, BBC, retrieved 10 Jul 2018. From the entry mar
  • Eddie spatulaed the patty onto a bun and extracted tomatoes, lettuce, and sliced pickles from a Tupperware.2018 March 13, Bruce Holbert, Whiskey: A Novel, MCD, →ISBN, page 4. From the entry spatula

Meaning of extract

  1. noun Something that is extracted or drawn out.
  2. noun A portion of a book, document, recording etc. incorporated distinctly in another work (for written or spoken words, synoymous to a citation; a quotation).
  3. noun A decoction, solution, or infusion made by drawing out from any substance that which gives it its essential and characteristic virtue.

Full definition of extract

Questions about extract in a sentence

How do you use extract in a sentence?
Extract is used as a noun and verb. For example: “I used an extract of Hemingway's book to demonstrate culture shock.”
What is a short sentence with extract?
“extract of beef”
What does extract mean?
Extract means something that is extracted or drawn out.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: extract (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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