Example Sentences

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Below, we have excerpted Chapter 3, “Lessons from Copyright Law.”

From The Verge • Aug. 28, 2018

Below I have excerpted and edited key portions.

From Slate • Aug. 1, 2011

But all this while I misunderstand him, for possibly he meaneth his own dear words I have excerpted.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac

Field seems to have excerpted this incautiously from the Schoolmen, who on this premiss could justify the communicability of adoration, as in the case of the saints.

From The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson