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Superfluous Sentence Examples

  • Emigration affords a natural outlet for the superfluous labour force of a country.
  • Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
  • The superfluous water from all the Delta canals is drained off, by bahrs (rivers) into the coast lakes.
  • By working in this way all round the ball, the best roots will be got out and preserved, and the ball lightened of all superfluous soil.
  • The paper, with the specimen upwards, is then laid on bibulous paper for a few minutes to absorb as much as possible of the superfluous moisture.
  • It is an athlete's style, all bone and sinew, nude, without superfluous flesh or ornament.
  • It includes also the superfluous merit and satisfaction of the Blessed Virgin and the Saints.
  • In one way, as I need not say, a saint has no superfluous merit.
  • It is this ` superfluous' expiation that accumulates in the Treasure of the Church " (Bp. of Newport, p. 166).
  • In some cases, as, for example, with peaches, the superfluous shoots are wholly removed, and certain selected shoots reserved to supply bearing wood for next year.
  • "Can something bad have happened to me?" he wondered as he got up: and at that moment he felt that something superfluous was hanging on his benumbed left arm.
  • But how cast off all the superfluous, devilish burden of my outer man?
  • But if the Order had now become a superfluous anachronism, it had still to be disposed of, and this was no easy task.
  • The hounds must have first of all walking, then trotting and fast exercise, so that their feet may be hardened, and all superfluous fat worked off by the last week in August.
  • The smoke of the campfires, into which they were throwing everything superfluous, made the eyes smart.
  • To fit timber for use in building construction the superfluous sap and.
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  • nonsuperfluous
  • superfluity
  • captain-obvious
  • superexcrescence
  • superfluence
  • ductor
  • prolixious
  • superfluous-interval
  • supervacuous

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