How to Use superfluous in a Sentence

superfluous

adjective
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  • Getting rid of the superfluous is a good place to start.
    — Yec, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
  • Maybe the horse is simply the horse, the prop, the superfluous detail used to make the point.
    — T Kira Madden, refinery29.com, 3 Aug. 2021
  • As there are many things to take care of we end up leaving the superfluous aside.
    — Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2020
  • One way of telling that many licences are superfluous is the sheer variance in the law across states.
    — The Economist, 17 Feb. 2018
  • Its business class is so good that the top tier is superfluous.
    — Adam Majendie, Bloomberg.com, 4 June 2023
  • The wedge of lemon along the side was completely superfluous.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 28 Nov. 2019
  • Pillows are superfluous in space and their blanket will be a sleeping bag strapped to the wall.
    — Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 11 June 2019
  • My job was to capture their genius and not take shots that were superfluous.
    — New York Times, 18 May 2022
  • Although the bag seems superfluous, a lot of people bought it.
    — Zoe Weiner, Teen Vogue, 21 June 2017
  • The concept of a summer scarf–even one this light–is superfluous yet chic.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 13 July 2022
  • One motivation was to get out ahead of the unions and treat workers in a way that would make unions superfluous.
    — Thomas S. Hibbs, National Review, 31 Aug. 2017
  • But the real star of the show was her vocals, daring and wild in a way that made all the rest of the spectacle seem superfluous.
    — Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The goal of the booster has already been accomplished, so a shot would be superfluous.
    — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2022
  • There is an urge to acquire new belongings and to discard those that are superfluous.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2020
  • All the safety precautions settled on months ago proved to be superfluous at these first dates.
    — Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
  • After an exchange like that, codes and rules might seem superfluous.
    — Charles Rappleye, Smithsonian, 13 Feb. 2017
  • The lead peaked at 31 but at a certain point, the score felt superfluous.
    — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 7 Dec. 2019
  • The superfluous swag had Oral-B’s logo silkscreened on it.
    — Lauren Goode, Wired, 24 Jan. 2020
  • To be fair, that would be completely superfluous in these scenes anyway.
    — Ruth Kinane, EW.com, 30 Apr. 2020
  • The batter was so crunchy, so pronounced, that bread is almost superfluous.
    — Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2019
  • There may be an urge to acquire new belongings and to discard those that are outdated and superfluous.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 June 2020
  • It’s the most logical time to cull all the superfluous stuff that has accumulated over time.
    — Vaidya Aiyer, Forbes, 29 June 2022
  • Critics say the ballot is superfluous and that parliament should simply vote on the matter.
    — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
  • There are no superfluous ingredients, fillers, or fluff in any of them.
    — The Salt Lake Tribune, 3 June 2022
  • Such movement may be more than superfluous hand flapping.
    — Matthew Hutson, Scientific American, 13 Apr. 2021
  • Your drip system might be superfluous for many species, so why plant plants near it for no necessity?
    — oregonlive, 19 June 2021
  • Next come shiitake mushrooms, which may at first seem superfluous but in fact help double down on the meatiness of the dish without adding extra fat.
    — Hilary Cadigan, Bon Appétit, 16 Nov. 2019
  • One of its massive timepieces, greened with age, looms so large in the windows of the master suite that a bedside alarm feels almost superfluous.
    — New York Times, 19 July 2019
  • And a sense of exaltation that made any encore superfluous.
    — Marcus Overton, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Jan. 2018
  • New York Picture books about the law are as superfluous as songs about economics.
    — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2017

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