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Superfluous
"Superfluous" in a Sentence (12 examples)
There was always too much superfluous writing in his essays.
Jim made a superfluous remark.
The real, biological nervous system is highly complex and includes some features that may seem superfluous based on an understanding of artificial networks.
Just as the female ant after coition loses her wings, which then become superfluous, nay, dangerous for breeding purposes, so for the most part does a woman lose her beauty after giving birth to one or two children; and probably for the same reasons.
They think it's superfluous.
The quotation marks are superfluous.
All the comments are superfluous.
Whenever a new law is not necessary, it is not merely superfluous but harmful.
We firmly believe that when composing sentences, the author should avoid falling into the bad habit inherent in the use of too many unnecessary words, which are actually absolutely superfluous in light of the intended meaning.
Every superfluous garment was thrown aside, and the sun beamed forth as if desirous of gazing at the charms which were exposed to his rays.
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With a full rain suit, carrying an umbrella may be superfluous.
Then I began to play in timid fashion, venturing only twenty or thirty gulden at a time. Meanwhile, I observed and took notes. It seemed to me that calculation was superfluous, and by no means possessed of the importance which certain other players attached to it, even though they sat with ruled papers in their hands, whereon they set down the coups, calculated the chances, reckoned, staked, and—lost exactly as we more simple mortals did who played without any reckoning at all.
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