Excerpt is an English word with synonyms like extract or selection. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Excerpt meaning
A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.
Using Excerpt
- The main meaning on this page is: A clip, snippet, passage or extract from a larger work such as a news article, a film, or a literary composition.
- Useful related words include: extract, excerption, selection, passage.
- In the example corpus, excerpt often appears in combinations such as: an excerpt, excerpt from, excerpt of.
Context around Excerpt
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 8 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 0 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Excerpt
- In this selection, "excerpt" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 24.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, exclusive, reading, brief, published and translated stand out and add context to how "excerpt" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a brief excerpt of her and an excerpt from the. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "excerpt" sits close to words such as additives, alfie and appreciating, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with excerpt
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Below is an excerpt from Bredensen’s book, verbatim. (9 words)
Here’s the full cover, followed by the excerpt. (9 words)
Pelletier will read a three-minute excerpt from one of her books, while Voisine will read a poem. (18 words)
In an excerpt from his new book, "The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Survival," out Feb. 28, 2023, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reveals how he won a second term by a record-setting 1.5 million votes. (42 words)
In the excerpt translated below, Jiang responds to a former friend of hers, who was praising “societal clearance,” a then-new euphemism for the lockdown, and demands that attention be paid to those who bore the brunt of Xi’an’s suffering. (42 words)
Ably partnered by the elegant Sambé, she reproduced her febrile intensity, her strength shrouded in fragility and her famously weightless jumps, though the excerpt could only suggest how affecting and varied she can be in the full ballet. (38 words)
And though the novel won’t officially hit shelves until May, but we’ve got an exclusive excerpt from the story for you right now! (25 words)
Example sentences (20)
The description of the rape was not part of the excerpt in the exam paper, but students nonetheless protested that the excerpt should have come with a “trigger warning”.
Ably partnered by the elegant Sambé, she reproduced her febrile intensity, her strength shrouded in fragility and her famously weightless jumps, though the excerpt could only suggest how affecting and varied she can be in the full ballet.
And though the novel won’t officially hit shelves until May, but we’ve got an exclusive excerpt from the story for you right now!
An excerpt from the UK's Business Appointment Rules listing the criteria used to evaluate requests from former Ministers.
Below is an excerpt from Bredensen’s book, verbatim.
Get a first look at the cover and read an excerpt from Christen Randall's forthcoming debut YA novel.
Harry reading excerpt: Over dinner one night at Highgrove, Pa and I spoke at some length about what I'd been suffering.
Here’s the full cover, followed by the excerpt.
He shared that in his discussions with the NSC, ‘it seems quite clear that this is the prime minister’s policy’,” said the excerpt published by The Intercept.
In a brief excerpt of her interrogation released by the Russian authorities, Darya Trepova appeared under duress as she sighed repeatedly.
In an excerpt from his new book, "The Courage to Be Free: Florida's Blueprint for America's Survival," out Feb. 28, 2023, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis reveals how he won a second term by a record-setting 1.5 million votes.
In the excerpt she read, Kennedy emphasized the effect of religious and political divisions in Troubles-era Ireland while retaining a light, sometimes humorous outlook.
In the excerpt translated below, Jiang responds to a former friend of hers, who was praising “societal clearance,” a then-new euphemism for the lockdown, and demands that attention be paid to those who bore the brunt of Xi’an’s suffering.
In this excerpt, we talk with Deanne Johnson, senior reporter with The Business Journal, and dig into her stories on veteran memorials throughout the Mahoning Valley.
Invariably, I come across a quote, a poem, or an excerpt from a longer piece that either settles me or pushes me.
It is an excerpt from a ‘Dispensation’ by John, Archbishop of St Andrews to Alexander Chisholm and Agnes Fraser.
Kaplan is also allowing Carroll’s side an excerpt of the infamous 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape in which Trump appeared to boast about sexually assaulting women.
Many wore moccasins; some were clad in boots; some were swift, some were slow,” reads an excerpt from Lebanon on the Preston.
Pelletier will read a three-minute excerpt from one of her books, while Voisine will read a poem.
Perhaps, he said half-jokingly, it could have a payment system using Dogecoin, the semi-serious cryptocurrency whose development he had been quietly funding," the excerpt from the book read.
Common combinations with excerpt
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an excerpt 79×
- excerpt from 77×
- excerpt of 28×
- the excerpt 18×
- this excerpt 18×
- excerpt in 4×
- excerpt published 4×
- reading excerpt 3×
- excerpt it 3×
- excerpt that 3×