How to Use outtake in a Sentence

outtake

noun
Definition of outtakenext
  • Later in the video, there's an outtake from the couple's Saint Patrick's Day video.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 5 May 2021
  • The outtake says it all: retro glamour, hot guys, and Taylor Swift in a killer wardrobe.
    — Chelsea Peng, Marie Claire, 3 Sep. 2015
  • Or are there outtakes from these last three albums in the can somewhere?
    — Matt Wake, AL.com, 13 June 2017
  • The image appears to be a photoshoot outtake of the star captured at the height of her fame.
    — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 11 July 2023
  • They should be cherished, but there were outtakes, too.
    — Dave Murphy, SFChronicle.com, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Shields had previously shared the video in April 2020 along with an outtake that alludes to the many takes the pair shot.
    — Kaitlyn Huamani, Peoplemag, 27 July 2023
  • The real draw, though, is the two dozen outtakes and unreleased songs, only some of which have leaked over the years.
    — Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The outtake for the epic Side One closer contains two treasures.
    — Jordan Runtagh, PEOPLE.com, 1 Oct. 2019
  • The album is not just a collection of odds and ends and outtakes, either.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 9 June 2018
  • All of the outtakes to Memphis Belle had shrunk to an average of 1.4 percent.
    — Chuck Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 23 May 2019
  • The other — the better of the two — is a disc of outtakes from the festival, with one or two extra songs by artists featured in the film.
    — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2018
  • There aren’t demos and outtakes on this reissue, but there is this Party of Five live recording.
    — Eric Renner Brown, Billboard, 9 Nov. 2023
  • At times, these sections can read a bit like thesis outtakes.
    — David L. Ulin, latimes.com, 29 Mar. 2018
  • And where else can my kids go to dig up embarrassing Bill & Ted outtakes of their dad?
    — Alex Winter, Rolling Stone, 11 Aug. 2023
  • There are tapes with one or two outtakes of things that have never been heard, but this is an entire album.
    — Natalie Weiner, Billboard, 29 June 2018
  • The backing track was sourced from an outtake from the original late ‘60s sessions.
    — Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 15 Aug. 2022
  • Many of the words the researchers have unearthed sound like outtakes from a Harry Potter novel.
    — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 19 Sep. 2017
  • George floors the others with an acoustic version of a Bob Dylan outtake.
    — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Nov. 2021
  • Disc 1 opens with outtakes of the first seven songs that appeared on the original album.
    — Marc Myers, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2018
  • Strangest of all, the Southern toad’s warning vibration sounds like an outtake from an Aphex Twin record.
    — Philip Sherburne, Pitchfork, 6 Nov. 2023
  • But in an outtake from that video shown Thursday, Trump protested language declaring the election to be over.
    — Amy Gardner and Josh Dawsey, Anchorage Daily News, 22 July 2022
  • Emmanuel made one of his first appearances on the farm's TikTok in an outtake video Blake posted, in which the bird interrupts the clip to stare at the screen.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Emmanuel made one of his first appearances on the farm's TikTok in an outtake video Blake posted, where the bird interrupts the clip to stare at the screen.
    — Amanda Taylor, Peoplemag, 16 Oct. 2022
  • Both sets are loaded with outtakes, and the Being There box includes a 1996 live show from Los Angeles.
    — Dan Deluca, Philly.com, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The photo appears to be an outtake from their People magazine shoot, which took place in late 2020.
    — Amy MacKelden, Harper's BAZAAR, 15 Feb. 2021
  • An outtake shows the sun and moon morphing into what looks like a three-legged celestial orb.
    — Rob Davis, OregonLive.com, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Her voice rises and falls, as the guitar swells like an ocean around her; the song has enough filigree and shadow to feel like a This Mortal Coil outtake.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 10 July 2023
  • In fact, this clip comes across almost like a reality-show Avengers, rather than a series of outtakes.
    — Sean Fitz-Gerald, Esquire, 3 Sep. 2015
  • Watching the video feels like watching the outtakes of your favorite ensemble TV show, where all the actors are friends in real life.
    — Sam Reed, Glamour, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Check out the exclusive outtakes Segal sent EW of Reid trying, and trying again, to keep up with a very simple line dance.
    — Shana Naomi Krochmal, EW.com, 27 May 2020

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