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Definition

a passage selected from a book, play, film, music or other work; or the selection of such a passage

She read an excerpt from the book she is currently writing.

The excerpts were presented out of context.
She presented excerpts from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
In certain excerpts of that sleep, Liesel watched him.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

excerpts = short parts from a longer story

A SMALL EXCERPT FROM THE WHISTLER
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

excerpt = a short part from a longer story

A LATE-NIGHT EXCERPT
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief

excerpt = a short part from a longer story

Excerpts taken from "The Only Sermon Jesus Ever Wrote," sermon by Billy Graham, © 1949 Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
What follows are excerpts from the verbatim transcript.
Yann Martel -- Life of Pi
Unbidden, excerpts from one of Oromis's scrolls rose in Eragon's memory.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
Do this: State frankly that you can't answer the question but that you are offering in its stead an excerpt from Moliere with translation.
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The film is ninety minutes long, but I will show only a few short excerpts.
Stieg Larsson -- The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
The English papers carried excerpts of the senator's speech and briefly mentioned my father.
Chaim Potok -- The Chosen
"Yes," said Max, remembering the chilling excerpts he'd read of Prusias in the Conjurer's Codex.
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
— John Paul Jones, September 14, 1775; excerpts from a letter to the naval committee of the N. A. insurrectionists.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
Excerpts from the clippings pasted in her book contained some real gems: Did they make me feel sad?
Stephen King -- Misery
Scrawled at the bottom of the ledger, Langdon saw a familiar excerpt.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
Excerpt from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, page 634784, section 5a.
Douglas Adams -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
I mean, if you don't count the excerpts I sent in letters to the girl I loved after she left for America.
Nicole Krauss -- The History of Love
We were to dance an excerpt from China's most famous ballet, The Red Detachment of Women.
Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
Her testimony had been quoted in the newspaper accounts of the case but only in harmless excerpts.
Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead

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