short excerpt

Frequency: 8.018.2 per million words

a piece of limited length taken from a longer work

excerptADJECTIVE + excerpt

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short

Examples (10)

  • The newspaper published a short excerpt from the author's memoir.
  • We listened to a short excerpt from Mozart's piano concerto.
  • The magazine featured a short excerpt of the upcoming novel.
  • Here's a short excerpt from yesterday's press conference.
  • The teacher read a short excerpt from Shakespeare's Hamlet.
  • They showed a short excerpt from the documentary film.
  • The website includes a short excerpt from each book review.
  • I'll quote a short excerpt from the research paper.
  • The program presented a short excerpt from the opera performance.
  • Please provide a short excerpt from your thesis introduction.