Examples of “excerpt” in a Sentence

noun A short passage taken from a longer book, film, speech or piece of music and presented on its own.

• The magazine printed an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir.
• He read a short excerpt aloud to the class.
• The teacher handed out an excerpt from the novel for us to analyse.

verb To take a passage out of a longer work in order to quote or publish it separately.

• The opening chapter was excerpted in the Sunday paper.
• The newspaper decided to excerpt three pages of the biography for its weekend supplement.
• Her speech was later excerpted on the radio and in several magazines.