extract from
Frequency: 9.235.1 per million words
used to indicate the source of a passage (e.g., a book)
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Examples (10)
- The teacher read a brief extract from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
- This extract from the novel shows the author's writing style.
- He quoted an interesting extract from the research paper.
- The newspaper published a short extract from the upcoming biography.
- Students analyzed an extract from Dickens' Great Expectations.
- The anthology includes a beautiful extract from her poetry collection.
- We discussed a controversial extract from the historical document.
- The review featured a compelling extract from the new memoir.
- She read aloud a moving extract from the war diary.
- The magazine printed a fascinating extract from the travel book.