Synonym: excerption, extract, selection, take out. Similar words: excel, except, excess, exceed, except for, exception, excessive, excellent. Meaning: [ek'sɜːpt] 
n. a passage selected from a larger work. v. take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy.
n. a passage selected from a larger work. v. take out of a literary work in order to cite or copy. 
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1. This is an excerpt from a novel.
2. An excerpt from her new thriller will appear in this weekend's magazine.
3. I've read an excerpt of the book on the Web and it's whetted my appetite.
4. Can you excerpt something from the newspaper?
5. They only played a short excerpt.
6. Read the following excerpt from one of Milton's poems.
7. I've seen a short excerpt from the film on television.
8. An excerpt of the speech appeared in the Sunday paper.
9. Here is a short excerpt from the poem.
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10. Or that it is wrong to take an excerpt from a programme and look at it in isolation.
11. He said he was unwilling to run the excerpt by itself, without any context.
12. Hamilton argues that this is the Cervantes excerpt, expanded and adapted in Shakespearean style.
13. The following excerpt is from one of my students' essays.
14. I'd like to read out a short excerpt from the poem.
15. An excerpt from the list of source node names which shows some of the most and least frequent names Figure 10.
16. Thomas Hobbes. Excerpt from Leviathan.
17. Machiavelli. Excerpt from The Prince.
18. You can excerpt passages from a book.
19. The passage is an excerpt from my recent novel.
20. Read an excerpt here or isit the Web site.
21. Assumed Liabilities excerpt from a model agreement, with comments.
22. The following is an excerpt of our past concerts.
23. Excerpt from a talk with the British Foreign Secretary, Geoffrey Howe.
24. Excerpt from a talk with Masayoshi Ohira, Prime Minister of Japan.
25. The following excerpt is from a paper by M. W. A. Provis.
26. This excerpt from a National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) history document tracks the emergence and acceptance of automated digital technology in the cockpits of commercial airplanes.
27. Excerpt from a talk with President Julius Kambarage Nyerere of the United Republic of Tanzania.
28. Excerpt from a talk with President Hussain Muhammad Ershad of Bangladesh.
29. Excerpt from a talk with Premier Lubomir Strougal of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic.
30. Our primary text will be the excerpt in your book from Hans-Georg Gadamer and a few passages that I'll be handing out from Martin Heidegger and E.D. Hirsch.
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