Use "superfluous" in a sentence

1. Yet again, Kara felt the impact of the massive divide between her culture and that of Earth – something the exploration of the seaside resort had highlighted; the sheer volume of … words failed her … stuff that was on sale in the shops … most of it completely superfluous … badly made, cheap (in every meaning of the word) ornaments of no practical use whatsoever and precious little artistic merit, deliberately manufactured to clutter up somebody’s home … and then there was the food and drink on offer! Everywhere she’d looked there had been foodstuffs on sale and people eating … battered fish, hot savoury smelling sausages, the tart scent of vinegar on chips fresh from the fryers … and ices of every conceivable flavour … and those unbelievable sweets in all shapes and sizes … and, according to Iain, this particular seaside resort was a relatively small one … by the time Iain turned off the motorway at the Taunton interchange, she had concluded that although it had been fun visiting, really, when it came down to it, she preferred her own world

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2. This ridding your body of excessive waste, and the practice of Yoga asanas and breathing exercises will go a long way towards sheering that superfluous fat from your body and here is a Yoga asana which will help you on your way

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3. Bloodshot eyes peered back at him as he surveyed the wreckage, reflecting that he really needed a shave but, in the same thought, dismissing it as superfluous the way things were

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4. When this superfluous paper was converted into gold and silver, they could easily find a use for it, by sending it abroad; but they could find none while it remained in the shape of paper

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5. There would immediately, therefore, be a run upon the banks to the whole extent of this superfluous paper, and if they showed any difficulty or backwardness in payment, to a much greater extent ; the alarm which this would occasion necessarily increasing the run

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6. She had a mission to fulfill; the war was superfluous

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7. When profits are high, that sober virtue seems to be superfluous, and expensive luxury to suit better the affluence of his situation

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8. And, in the end, the civil magistrate will find that he has dearly paid for his intended frugality, in saving a fixed establishment for the priests ; and that, in reality, the most decent and advantageous composition, which he can make with the spiritual guides, is to bribe their indolence, by assigning stated salaries to their profession, and rendering it superfluous for them to be farther active, than merely to prevent their flock from straying in quest of new pastors

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9. wrote that it would have been wholly superfluous to have tried to write specific instructions for such a vast journey with such

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10. „Memoirs of a Superfluous Man

11. superfluous, as were all the viewports on the ship

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12. He only needed to be told the objective; anything else would be superfluous

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13. that in the end we have chipped off all the superfluous

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14. There was a sort of tent or awning as well, perhaps in order to offer some short of shade from the sunlight, but Hilderich thought it was quite superfluous

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15. Pretty soon the persons became superfluous

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16. The health and stability of the country had become superfluous

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17. I can confirm that they would be superfluous

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18. superfluous – that Jesus is alive in their hearts, and the way to Heaven is available to all who repent

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19. mindful of the resurrection: 44 For if he had not hoped that those who were killed should have risen again, it had been superfluous

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20. 18 For whatever man he be that has a blemish, he shall not approach: a blind man or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any thing superfluous,

21. 23 Either a bullock or a lamb that has any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest you offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted

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22. suddenly education could become something seen as superfluous

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23. The question was superfluous

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24. In addition, the contention is that there is not even one superfluous word in the Pentateuch

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25. 23 Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill

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26. 43 And when he had made a gathering throughout the company to the sum of two thousand drachms of silver he sent it to Jerusalem to offer a sin offering doing in it very well and honestly in that he was mindful of the resurrection: 44 For if he had not hoped that those who were killed should have risen again it had been superfluous and vain to pray for the dead

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27. For as soon as it sees such men standing stedfast it throws itself into their hearts and for nothing at all the man or woman becomes embittered on account of occurrences in their daily life as for instance on account of their food or some superfluous word that has been uttered or on account of some friend or some gift or debt or some such senseless affair

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28. Dualities become superfluous at the superposed event horizon (the ‘full-void’) and cancels out in the empty-void

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29. the event horizon), although it may become superfluous (and meaningless)

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30. The brain is chemically controlled, and experience has shown that it can be made permeable to the superfluous aspects of Mind-at-Large by modifying the normal chemistry of the body

31. It would appear superfluous to him to construct theories that the ‘separate lines make up the cube

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32. While (bottom-up) analysis (associated with the left brain) is natural for the 1d’ers, analysis diminishes and becomes superfluous for the 3d’ers (who appear to be using intuition or ‘direct knowledge’ — associated with the right brain)

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33. However, for a 3d observer, these laws and theories are superfluous

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34. But new Developments in Area Two would soon make the surrogates superfluous, and at the time Hamish joined the staff final testing of the new procedures was still going on

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35. “The rich have a superfluous store of things which they do not need and which are, therefore, neglected and wasted; while millions starve and are frozen to death for want of them

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36. He felt a little lost and superfluous

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37. In that euphoria of their emotion, as mere words would be superfluous, he impulsively extended his hand to her

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38. When circumstances and relations vary it is necessary and vital to be able of moving towards different development models, which makes it superfluous to continue and insist on preceding behaviour

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39. None of them became standard until the beginning of the 80s (air condition only at the beginning of the 90s), whereas that which seemed to be a superfluous innovation, immediately came to constitute the difference in the purchase decision of the consumer: the reclining seat

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40. It was not, however, until he lay panting on one of the boughs not far from his home, his birthplace, his nursery, his school, that something very marked happened: things started to have Superfluous Capital Letters

41. ” His comments were meant to be self-effacing but sounded superfluous

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42. Like many in Washington now, either generals or politicians, he thinks that the atomic bomb has rendered superfluous most of our military units

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43. as soon as that boundary is violated, the indicator becomes superfluous and investor

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44. ‘’At the time, I deemed those details as superfluous: finding ways to help you was a more pressing matter

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45. Michael thought that a wash and brush up would be superfluous to

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46. The unexpected planet has been deemed superfluous and/or a threat to the galaxy

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47. “Yeah, yeah, yeah,” said Wilx, handing a bag of dried up, dusty and filthy superfluous internal organs to Rip, who began rather grotesquely to ingest them and move them about his insides back into place with a pointed stick

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48. The stairs were completely superfluous, as nobody else was really allowed in Reg's compound to begin with, and the select few inner-class minions always chose teleportation over the mile of stairs

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49. “Oh, so just because you’re feeling inadequate and superfluous, you’re telling me I’m barking up the wrong tree? Is that it?” Without waiting for him to reply, she jerked the car into gear and pulled out onto the road

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50. They can get rid of freckles and superfluous hair, of course

51. He felt superfluous; Crystal was doing fine, incubating the eggs

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52. But at every instant of your choice you have no time to become aware of this and thus you consider such “a sacrifice” to be irrational, inexpedient, premature, and superfluous

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53. between what is necessary and what is superfluous ostensibly loses its relevancy

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54. Whereas what is wanted might be superfluous and leave one where they are, what is

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55. I read somewhere, perhaps in the writings of the great András Montagh, that, when pheasant hunting, a strap is superfluous to the hunter

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56. Superfluous: Over and above; having more than enough

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57. If a Hungarian hunter manages to disregard the following issues (which I consider completely superfluous): why do Americans wear camouflage clothing, why do they shoot with military-like guns, and why they can't just behave like us Europeans, well, then he will make some very good hunting friends when overseas

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58. Quite superfluous in the age of the hamburger and the stains of ketchup

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59. In civilization: the more superfluous, the more unnecessary something is, the more it is valued

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60. Any group of people whose retaining their job depends on the authority that they are given over others will be threatened if anyone tries to criticize the way it does its everyday business… because you are in effect telling them that they are superfluous, unneeded, and should be fired

61. “I told you that I try to solve my problems, sentimental or otherwise, with cold logic, consequently I consider the question superfluous because the choice is never ours

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62. The more superfluous your purchases are, the faster the pleasure of buying them disappears, the more you are driven to buy more junk that is useless

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63. “What was that superfluous question?” he asked

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64. The superfluous ornamentation of Roman culture itself disappeared

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65. Resurrection becomes superfluous, since we can relate to

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66. superfluous, since we can relate to Christ “out of body

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67. Resurrection becomes superfluous,

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68. Resurrection becomes superfluous, since we can relate to Christ “out of body

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69. That is why I am glad to present this mater before him, because he cannot fail to see that his conclusions have been weighted down with superfluous subject matter not found in the premises—except as his premises were assumed

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70. In accordance with the principle of "in the ethereal field areas with excessive density do not occur", it always moves away from the place where in the ethereal field superfluous Ether appears

71. At the age of twelve or so, having given up dolls and broken our steam engines, France, but much more probably Italy, and India almost for a certainty, draws the superfluous imagination

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72. With tact and good-breeding, and, above all, entirely without superfluous words, I blamed myself for all that had happened

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73. But that does not mean that the precaution of having water-tight doors to the bunkers is useless, superfluous, or impossible

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74. "It was no hint that your company was superfluous: we didn't care whether you kept with us or not; I merely thought Heathcliff's talk would have nothing entertaining for your ears

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75. And often rulers and their subjects may come in one another's way, whether on a journey or on some other occasion of meeting, on a pilgrimage or a march, as fellow-soldiers or fellow-sailors; aye and they may observe the behaviour of each other in the very moment of danger--for where danger is, there is no fear that the poor will be despised by the rich--and very likely the wiry sunburnt poor man may be placed in battle at the side of a wealthy one who has never spoilt his complexion and has plenty of superfluous flesh-- when he sees such an one puffing and at his wits'-end, how can he avoid drawing the conclusion that men like him are only rich because no one has the courage to despoil them? And when they meet in private will not people be saying to one another 'Our warriors are not good for much'?

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76. Gwen seemed so completely self-contained, so chatty and busy, with all her talk of her friends and grandchildren; the idea of a husband seemed superfluous

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77. ‘Bloody fucking’ is superfluous and contributes nothing to the sentence in either connotation or denotation

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78. Upon that, he pulled out a napkin, as if it were a magic clew without which he couldn't find the way up stairs, and led us to the black hole of the establishment, fitted up with a diminishing mirror (quite a superfluous article, considering the hole's proportions), an anchovy sauce-cruet, and somebody's pattens

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79. "Sir," said she, "it is superfluous for me to tell you that Valentine's marriage is broken off, since it was here that the affair was concluded

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80. Long in the tooth and superfluous hair

81. From the same drawer she took a man's complete costume, from the boots to the coat, and a provision of linen, where there was nothing superfluous, but every requisite

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82. What caused him irritation in his sitting posture? Inhibitory pressure of collar (size 17) and waistcoat (5 buttons), two articles of clothing superfluous in the costume of mature males and inelastic to alterations of mass by expansion

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83. Most of the elements made sense, but one or two pieces of wood seemed to him to be superfluous, or even detrimental, transferring weight to weaker zones

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84. After having taken even superfluous precautions against a discovery, our success in repeated meetings emboldened me to omit the barely necessary ones

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85. Her husband was simply a superfluous and tiresome person

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86. This young man has left prints upon the stair-carpet which made it quite superfluous for me to ask to see those which he had made in the room

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87. She did not say what she had said the evening before to her lover, that HE was her husband, and her husband was superfluous; she did not even think that

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88. They talk of the superfluous woman, but what would the poor superfluous man do without her kindly presence? By the way, in their simplicity they very quickly let out the reason why Saunderson recommended their farm

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89. They assumed an air of fully comprehending the import and force of the situation, of accepting and even approving of it, but of considering it superfluous and uncalled for to put all this

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90. Many of his old ideas seemed to him superfluous and extreme, but many blanks became distinct to him when he reviewed the whole thing in his memory

91. He would have liked to interrupt Metrov, to explain his own thought, which in his opinion would have rendered further exposition of Metrov’s theories superfluous

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92. It seemed to him something extraneous, superfluous, to which he could not accustom himself

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93. He recognized that the newspapers published a great deal that was superfluous and exaggerated, with the sole aim of attracting attention and outbidding one another

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94. As the second cultist fell, he slammed his head against the edge of a patio table, incurring a superfluous final wound

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95. an-hour before, the introductory style seemed a little superfluous

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96. I recalled, too, that during those two hours I had not said a single word to this creature, and had, in fact, considered it utterly superfluous; in fact, the silence had for some reason gratified me

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