How to Use excerpt in a Sentence

excerpt

1 of 2 noun

• She read an excerpt from the play.
• I've read only excerpts of Moby-Dick, never the whole book.
• Check out five excerpts from the book that were posted onto cleveland.com.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 31 July 2023
• Listen to this week’s episode and read an excerpt from it below.
  — Pitchfork, 11 Jan. 2024
• Read and excerpt from an early draft of the screenplay below.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 27 Mar. 2024
• The six-minute music video features excerpts from the album's tracks.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 6 June 2023
• Head over to Rolling Stones’ website to read the excerpt in its entirety.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 19 Sep. 2023
• The below book excerpt shares four tactics to improve both CX and EX.
  — Tiffani Bova, Quartz, 12 July 2023
• The caption of the post is an excerpt from the satirical article.
  — Chris Mueller, USA TODAY, 24 Feb. 2023
• Read on for an excerpt from her book, out Oct. 17, which describes the start of her journey out of darkness.
  — Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 6 Oct. 2023
• In this excerpt, Stone writes about the planning for that surreal day.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2023
• The years of workshopping and tinkering has left them with a film that feels like excerpts from a much longer piece.
  — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 7 July 2023
• The guild sued Google in 2005 for scanning books to use in excerpts in its search engine results and to share with libraries.
  — Cecilia Kang, New York Times, 25 Jan. 2024
• Each showcase consists of four projects presented via a pitch and a 10-minute excerpt of the rough cut.
  — Tim Gray, Variety, 17 May 2023
• Here is an exclusive excerpt of one moment that made the cut.
  — Janine Rubenstein, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2023
• An excerpt from the article reads; To be effective against this rebel group, the marines needed to adapt.
  — Eric Tegler, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
• DeSantis said to Morgan, according to the excerpts in the Post.
  — Brittany Shepherd, ABC News, 22 Mar. 2023
• This week, Spears appears on the cover of People magazine, which published the first excerpts from the book.
  — Elizabeth Wagmeister, Variety, 17 Oct. 2023
• Read on for a few excerpts from the interview and listen to the full conversation in this week’s TV’s Top 5, below.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Mar. 2024
• In the excerpt below, Ernie gets his first job at a newspaper and strives to improve his figure-drawing skills.
  — Françoise Mouly, The New Yorker, 3 July 2023
• These excerpts have been edited for length and clarity.
  — Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2023
• The day prior, the court heard excerpts from statements given by the actress’ children, Apple and Moses Martin.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2023
• These excerpts have been edited and condensed for length and clarity.
  — Haadiza Ogwude, The Enquirer, 13 Mar. 2023
• Audio quotes from Smith and his wife develop the story, as does an excerpt from Ask of God, Smith’s account of his first vision.
  — Brian T. Allen, National Review, 20 Jan. 2024
• The excerpts do not identify any of the 75 witnesses interviewed and do not mention Trump by name.
  — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 17 Apr. 2023
• Nkosazana’s lines here, and Lindsay’s next lines, are excerpts from the Shivone Camphor interview.
  — Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
• In this excerpt describing a 1978 hang, his budding friendship with Van Halen is on full display.
  — Steve Rosen, Variety, 10 Mar. 2023
• These are edited excerpts from the conversation and from a subsequent phone call with Seal.
  — Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times, 6 June 2023
• That would have been very difficult,' says a senior former aide, according to the excerpt.
  — Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 14 Jan. 2024
• An excerpt was posted to X on Saturday ahead of the full podcast release Tuesday.
  — Sarah Beth Hensley, ABC News, 6 Nov. 2023

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excerpt

2 of 2 verb

• Many of the emails are excerpted and their full context isn’t clear.
  — Kirsten Grind, WSJ, 5 Dec. 2018
• The following is excerpted from the book The Streak by John Eisenberg.
  — John Eisenberg, SI.com, 4 July 2017
• Also, part of my review of #1 was excerpted for the back cover of #2.
  — Will Nevin, OregonLive.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• The book would be excerpted in Life, a major coup, and became a huge best-seller.
  — Evgenia Peretz, vanityfair.com, 29 Mar. 2017
• Here is a transcript of his speech, which was excerpted in Sunday’s Post.
  — Cohen Peart, The Denver Post, 1 May 2017
• This op-ed was excerpted from his Oct. 19 AFN address; the full speech is available here.
  — Author: Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott, Alaska Dispatch News, 21 Oct. 2017
• The Medicine Line, which gives its name to this excerpted chapter from the book, in northeastern Montana, is one of them.
  — Porter Fox, Outside Online, 1 June 2018
• It was excerpted in the New York Times so there was some momentum behind that.
  — John Wilkens, sandiegouniontribune.com, 30 Apr. 2017
• The images in this article have been excerpted from Guy Delisle’s book, Hostage.
  — Anna Diamond, The Atlantic, 13 May 2017
• The group will distribute the guideline excerpts that have appeared on the Internet.
  — Margaret Newkirk, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020
• This article was excerpted from Health Affairs and can be read in full at healthaffairs.org.
  — Katti Gray, chicagotribune.com, 21 Aug. 2017
• Kjellberg pulled the video showing the two men displaying the anti-Semitic sign, but it is excerpted in a Wall Street Journal video.
  — Mae Anderson, Orange County Register, 14 Feb. 2017
• And, which Vogue was privileged to excerpt in the November issue.
  — Lilah Ramzi, Vogue, 2 Nov. 2021
• According to the new foreword, which was excerpted by People, Princess Diana wanted to make sure the British public heard her side of the story.
  — Megan Friedman, Good Housekeeping, 22 June 2017
• First published in 2006, the poem, from which this passage was excerpted, remains a striking testament to the present.
  — Dionne Brand Anne Boyer, New York Times, 29 June 2023
• The two movies are excerpted in two different songs on Manic, and are clearly important to Halsey.
  — P. Claire Dodson, Teen Vogue, 17 Jan. 2020
• His book had been excerpted in The New Yorker, and everyone expected great things.
  — Edmund White, New York Times, 19 Apr. 2018
• This could also be excerpted as a flashy concert opener.
  — Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 22 Apr. 2023
• Seen from this remove, certain moments rise to the surface, worthy of excerpting for the Internet.
  — Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 4 Jan. 2020
• Stories so tempting to summarize should not also be such a pleasure to excerpt.
  — Dan Chiasson, The New York Review of Books, 6 June 2019
• Some of the listed or excerpted texts aren’t attached to a particular author.
  — Jeff Barker, baltimoresun.com, 15 June 2018
• Cepelewicz is a staff writer for the online magazine Quanta, from which this is excerpted.
  — Jordana Cepelewicz, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2018
• McKeon, now 72, doesn’t appear to be diagnosing Jackie with any kind of body image issue, at least that doesn’t come across in the People excerpt.
  — Martha Ross, The Mercury News, 28 Apr. 2017
• My letter of resignation was printed in full in the student newspaper and excerpted on this page.
  — Paul S. Levy, WSJ, 10 June 2018
• This is excerpted from his remarks before the torturous four-plus hour meeting on Thursday.
  — Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2019
• The person President Trump has put in charge of seemingly everything, excerpt his twitter account and hair spray.
  — Jeff Darcy, cleveland.com, 23 June 2017
• Here is a video of the congressman justifying his vote, published on Facebook and transcribed and excerpted below.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 17 Aug. 2019
• Below, excerpted from Lesser’s book, are her three top recommendations in the genre.
  — Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2020
• Third, and consistent with the First Amendment, news companies routinely paraphrase and excerpt sources.
  — Michael McCann, SI.com, 15 July 2019
• This also is excerpted in the federal Jan. 6 indictment.
  — Nick Penzenstadler, USA TODAY, 17 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024