How to Use superfluous in a Sentence

superfluous

adjective

• 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
• Getting rid of the superfluous is a good place to start.
  — Yec, Forbes, 28 Oct. 2021
• The lead peaked at 31 but at a certain point, the score felt superfluous.
  — Zach Osterman, Indianapolis Star, 7 Dec. 2019
• 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
• But the larger bases and new pickoff rules have put a superfluous shine on that bling.
  — Austin Knoblauch, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2023
• 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
• The concept of a summer scarf–even one this light–is superfluous yet chic.
  — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 13 July 2022
• The superfluous swag had Oral-B’s logo silkscreened on it.
  — Lauren Goode, Wired, 24 Jan. 2020
• 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 changeup has largely been a superfluous weapon for the three-time Cy Young Award winner.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2022
• Pillows are superfluous in space and their blanket will be a sleeping bag strapped to the wall.
  — Daniel Oberhaus, WIRED, 11 June 2019
• On the matter of health and living, force is superfluous.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Although the bag seems superfluous, a lot of people bought it.
  — Zoe Weiner, Teen Vogue, 21 June 2017
• What's next, a bevy of superfluous gauges on the A-pillar and an air freshener redolent of Axe body spray?
  — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 10 Oct. 2020
• My job was to capture their genius and not take shots that were superfluous.
  — New York Times, 18 May 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
• The goal of the booster has already been accomplished, so a shot would be superfluous.
  — Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, 11 Oct. 2022
• And finally, after all that's done, there's a chance that the protein, which is superfluous to the virus, will end up being lost.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 29 July 2020
• New York Picture books about the law are as superfluous as songs about economics.
  — Edward Rothstein, WSJ, 26 Sep. 2017
• Here, too, the rivers of people were well behaved—even the drunks seemed mellow—and with a multitude of cops on hand the squad of Angels was perhaps superfluous.
  — Bruce Handy, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2021
• 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
• All the safety precautions settled on months ago proved to be superfluous at these first dates.
  — Star Tribune, 2 July 2021
• The Normans had dinner around nine a.m., making a wake-up meal superfluous.
  — Sascha Bos, Bon Appetit, 6 Apr. 2017
• There is an urge to acquire new belongings and to discard those that are superfluous.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 5 June 2020
• After an exchange like that, codes and rules might seem superfluous.
  — Charles Rappleye, Smithsonian, 13 Feb. 2017
• The majority of the rest of the cast is superfluous or irritating.
  — Erik Kain, Forbes, 12 Sep. 2021
• With nary a mannequin or superfluous sign in sight, the store’s focus is on the clothes, making for easy, straightforward shopping.
  — Gail Goldberg, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Feb. 2018
• The batter was so crunchy, so pronounced, that bread is almost superfluous.
  — Michael Mayo, sun-sentinel.com, 25 Aug. 2019

Last Updated: 29 Apr 2024