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116 examples of Superfluous in a sentence

Bodies that were built to hang onto every calorie found themselves swimming in the superfluous calories of the post-war Western diet.
Joy isn't some superfluous extra.
Everything beyond this is superfluous, and therefore tyrannical.
It's stupidly constructed, it's got way too many arbitrary coupling constants and mass ratios and superfluous families of elementary particles, and what the hell is dark energy?
Worse, if a big proportion of cells never fire, then they are superfluous and evolution should have jettisoned them long ago.
Yes, ATMs could do certain cash-handling tasks faster and better than tellers, but that didn't make tellers superfluous.
Why doesn't that make our labor superfluous, our skills redundant?
But I've always operated under this idea that these little moments of humanness are not superfluous.
The next step of evolution in mammals and creatures with divinely superfluous neurons will be to play.
Events occurred for the flimsiest reasons, and most events seemed superfluous to whatever plot may have existed.
Still, it's better than the abysmal screenplay, which spends about a third of its length on superfluous extras like Belle's present day problems, stuff about Scrooge's dad, and plenty of charmless fannying around with - choke - TWO ANTHROPOMORPHIC MICE.
Sorry - I like 'eastern' movies, but this one is really superfluous.
Hugo Weaving's character is superfluous.
The first 20 minutes were utterly superfluous.
An exception is Randy Quaid, whose character is superfluous and incredibly annoying.
And the lady driving the truck through it is superfluous, since she had more than enough time to stop the truck.
He responds to the deaths of some of his hands weakly; he escapes from Knox's gang by hiding in a full rain barrel; his escape to the high country and pursuit by John Russell seem superfluous, as does much of the film.
The superfluous use of blood was campy but seemed to make sense in the end....Ah, the end.
In the DVD release as "extras" they have "deleted scenes" (including an alternate ending) and an "extended party sequence"; why these clips were not included in the final film is hard to understand, as they tie in with the rest of the film perfectly and are in NO way superfluous.
There's nothing stylish or fake or superfluous about it.
The narration by three different German narrators (German film historian Lotte Eisner, Eugen Des Montagnes, and Wolfgang von Ungern-Sternberg) is solid, and Herzog goes on and on of Eisner's import to this project, himself, and film history, but the English speaker of the translation, James William Gledhill, has a voice that seems downright deific, which lends itself far more perfectly to this project, even though much of the text- in either language, is rather superfluous.
With her bland suits and superfluous hair gel, Young does a decent job at convincing the audience of her devout hatred for men.
Code Name: Diamond Head may have been intended as the hier to H50 as the older series eventually dwindled away...but it comes across as a superfluous, 2nd rate copy.
The supposedly romantic angle was superfluous and a distraction.
Or, in the case of Downey's & Hannah's characters, apparently superfluous.
It was totally superfluous and had nothing to do with the actual events of the story.
That's a big disappointment because one of the things that makes Borges' stories so good is his minimalism -- they are tightly bound, with no superfluous details.
"Stroker Ace" is simply a superfluous film with nothing unique or distinctive about it.
Chinese Ghost Story III is a totally superfluous sequel to two excellent fantasy films.
In the same section on the Festival now we have to complain the superfluous antithesis of Sue, "Extension du domaine de la lutte", which now tries to convince us that loneliness and having NO sex is one and the same problem.
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