How to Use edit in a Sentence

edit

1 of 2 verb

• The book was poorly edited.
• This chapter needs to be edited.
• The stories have been edited for a younger audience.
• The software allows you to edit videos on your computer.
• This film has been edited for television.
• Students learn to edit their essays for grammar and punctuation.
• Then the copy edits and the fact check and the legal review.
  — Carson Vaughan, Outside Online, 27 Jan. 2020
• But there must have been no time to edit out that footage.
  — Nancy Kruh, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2022
• Once their boys got burned out, Dave asked them to teach him how to edit.
  — Mitchell S. Jackson, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2022
• The video utilized a greenscreen and took about eight hours to shoot and 30 hours to edit.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 9 Apr. 2021
• Phil can’t wait till the next day to edit and send his images.
  — Steff Yotka, Vogue, 15 June 2022
• Users will also be able to edit their 'Shared Users' list on the app, too.
  — Kelly Corbett, House Beautiful, 6 Feb. 2020
• The image had been edited not to remove her clothes, but to add them.
  — Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 6 Feb. 2024
• Note: Some of the answers have been edited and condensed for length.
  — Taylor Seely, USA TODAY, 6 July 2018
• There was an art cart where people could learn to edit short videos, and there were free movies on the lawn.
  — Tess Taylor, Harper's Magazine, 22 June 2021
• The film is stark in its refusal to edit away what doesn’t fit with glamour.
  — Sasha Frere-Jones, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Nov. 2022
• Cook, the co-author of that report, edited the new study.
  — Polly Mosendz, Bloomberg.com, 19 Oct. 2017
• There was hardly time to edit, but the shot didn’t need much editing.
  — Matt Cohen, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Jan. 2022
• Nevertheless, the trial marks the first time it’s been shown to be safe to edit the genomes of cells in the body.
  — Grace Browne, WIRED, 28 Dec. 2022
• But his absence forced Hill to edit his play-call sheet.
  — Kent Somers, The Arizona Republic, 8 Nov. 2020
• So, the big difference with this pig is that its genes have been edited.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2024
• This is a great time for everyone to edit their wardrobes.
  — Catherine Gaugh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Feb. 2022
• Husted's face is edited into the picture with duct tape over his mouth.
  — Jason Williams, Cincinnati.com, 10 Oct. 2017
• Some of the answers were edited for length and clarity.
  — Elizabeth Montgomery, azcentral, 22 Jan. 2020
• A few years ago, no bride- or groom-to-be would dare edit a guest list after sending out a save-the-date.
  — WSJ, 20 Dec. 2021
• The rule of thumb is around three months for network TV series to be written, shot and edited.
  — Michael Schneider, Variety, 9 Nov. 2023
• Boone Ashworth, who edited the show, can be found at @booneashworth.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 28 June 2019
• Two days isn’t exactly enough time to film and edit new scenes for the show or anything.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 31 Mar. 2022
• Before its creation, there was no easy way to shoot, edit, and share videos.
  — Joe Lindsey, Popular Mechanics, 24 Dec. 2019
• Whitear planned to edit his final picks for time, but not for content.
  — Reyhan Harmanci, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022

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edit

2 of 2 noun

• Vogue’s edit of the best sales to shop is a great place to start.
  — Vogue, 21 Jan. 2022
• To prep, shoot, edit — that’s about a year of your life.
  — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 28 Mar. 2023
• That adage about how a film is made three times — on the page, on the set and in the edit — is true.
  — Randee Dawn, Los Angeles Times, 20 Dec. 2022
• And in the ways that memes evolve, some go through a second stage of edits.
  — Michael Price, Science | AAAS, 22 May 2018
• That's where our edit of the best Nordstrom gifts of 2023 comes in.
  — Condé Nast, Allure, 30 Sep. 2023
• By the time the game ended, my work looked like the first edit of a novel.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 July 2019
• The big Twitter news this week was, of course, the edit button.
  — WIRED, 5 Sep. 2022
• Read on for our edit on the best beauty products of the year.
  — Ashley Weatherford, The Cut, 18 Dec. 2017
• This was my film, and no one was going to change my edit in the end.
  — Sonaiya Kelley, latimes.com, 14 June 2018
• Check out our edit of the best Black Friday deals of 2023.
  — Kelsey Clark, Glamour, 16 Nov. 2023
• Should he be cut, in the final edit, his name still will be there, twice, at the end.
  — Tim Chitwood, ajc, 22 May 2021
• Some of them needed a lot of direction and a lot of help in the edit room.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Mar. 2022
• This might be why Musk is now quibbling about the edit.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 14 Dec. 2018
• Drive is what gets you to the finish line, the final edit, or the summit.
  — Brendan Leonard, Outside Online, 22 Mar. 2018
• Our edits would always come in so long — an hour and a half on a cut.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Aug. 2023
• There has been a lot of talk this season about your edit.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 16 Dec. 2021
• Thank you so so much to @brianandsharnafans for this amazing edit.
  — Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 13 Feb. 2022
• The show is once again giving Tahz the drama queen edit.
  — Kristen Baldwin, EW.com, 17 Aug. 2021
• The edit also features some of Beckman’s work from the ’80s.
  — Anna Tingley, Variety, 9 Aug. 2023
• But an edit to make the photo fit in the program's template.
  — Nina Mandell, USA TODAY, 30 May 2017
• That's one small step for a man, one giant edit for mankind.
  — Fox News, 4 Oct. 2019
• Thompson: There is a lot of stuff you guys filmed that didn’t make the final edit.
  — Simon Thompson, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2021
• This includes a re-edit and re-design of the layout and text.
  — Cassell Ferere, Forbes, 13 May 2021
• For more ways to show a hint of skin this fall, shop our edit of the best off-the-shoulder tops right below.
  — Vogue, 28 Oct. 2021
• The move to Sunday nights on CBS means the show will need to undergo some edits.
  — José Sánchez Córdova, Dallas News, 21 July 2023
• If the number had gone down, I probably would’ve been locked out of the edit.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Nov. 2023
• But, his edit on the show played into a lot of this in a humorous way.
  — Lia Beck, refinery29.com, 1 July 2020
• Even at four minutes, the radio edit feels a bit too long.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 28 Sep. 2021
• More was said about Deepti than what was shown in the final edit.
  — Rachel Schonberger, EW.com, 4 Mar. 2022
• See you next week, when Luke P.'s villain edit is in full swing.
  — Anna Moeslein, Glamour, 28 May 2019

Last Updated: 9 May 2024