Sample Sentences for
extraneous
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    Ender toyed with the idea of telling them how important this battle was to him, but decided it would not help them to have an extraneous concern on their minds.  (source)
    extraneous = not relevant to the matter under consideration
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    I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.  (source)
    extraneous = less important or from outside
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    If each, I told myself, could but be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable; the unjust delivered from the aspirations might go his way, and remorse of his more upright twin; and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path, doing the good things in which he found his pleasure, and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil.  (source)
    extraneous = not belonging to that in which it is contained
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    And whatever extraneous influence the tannery may have exercised, the calamities of the land belong to it alone, born of wind and rain and weather, immensities not to be tempered by man or his creations.  (source)
    extraneous = unimportant to the matter under consideration
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    It was the extra exclamation point that got me. My mother would call it extraneous, overblown, exuberant.  (source)
    extraneous = not relevant (unneeded)
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    For six months, Ekman and his collaborator, Wallace Friesen, had been sorting through the footage, cutting extraneous scenes, focusing just on close-ups of the faces of the tribesmen in order to compare the facial expressions of the two groups.  (source)
    extraneous = not relevant or important to the matter under consideration
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    It had crossed her thought like some unsought, extraneous impression.  (source)
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    My breathing was labored and ragged as I tried to force any extraneous thoughts from my head.†  (source)
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    There was no extraneous conversation, no distraction.†  (source)
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    Some might question the amount of extraneous detail concerning the subject's early life, but there was method in the authors' verbosity.†  (source)
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    Instead —quite unexpectedly — I'd been knocked reeling by the stress of navigating one of the most crowded stores in Manhattan on a Friday close to Christmas: elevators packed, stairwells packed, flowing with shoals of tourists, holiday shoppers jostling five and six deep at the display cases to buy watches and scarves and handbags and carriage clocks and etiquette books and all kinds of extraneous merchandise in Signature Robin's Egg Blue.†  (source)
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    So extraneous, so unnecessary.†  (source)
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    After three days of the headmistress depending on us for everything, we had suddenly become extraneous.†  (source)
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