excerpt from (something)
excerpt from (something)
To use a passage from or section of something, often a text. A noun or pronoun can be used between "excerpt" and 'from." I'm planning to excerpt this section from "Hamlet" in my term paper so that the professor can see my close reading of it.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
excerpt something from something
to select a part of something from the whole. We excerpted a few short scenes from the play and performed them for the class. A few paragraphs had been excerpted from the film as an example.
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McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
- excerpt
- excerpt from
- arrange for
- arrange for some time
- arrange some music for
- back into
- back into (someone or something)
- involve with
- involve with (someone or something)
- involved with