excerpt from

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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Blair	-	Scottish, English
Vedrana	-	Croatian, Serbian
Luciano	loo-CHAH-no (Italian), loo-THYAH-no (Spanish), loo-SYAH-no (Latin American Spanish)	Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Shun (2)	shoon	Japanese
Akram	-	Arabic
Quirino	-	Italian, Portuguese, Spanish