Sample sentences for SUPERFLUOUS

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Definition

more than is needed, desired, or required

superfluous = more than is needed, desired, or required

Everyone liked the idea. The arguments I prepared to support it were superfluous.

superfluous = unnecessary

Her husband was simply a superfluous and tiresome person.
Tolstoy, Leo -- Anna Karenina
One of the most infuriating habits of these people was their love of superfluous words, he thought.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart

superfluous = more than is needed

I saw myself as a dead-weary pilgrim, dragging myself across the desert of the other world, laden with the many superfluous books I had written,
Hermann Hesse -- Steppenwolf

superfluous = more than is needed, desired, or required

That request seemed superfluous when I wrote it.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -- The Great Gatsby

superfluous = more than was needed

superfluous = more than is needed, desired, or required

"...lovers to have ..." I relish that last phrase. Its awkwardness (the "to have" seems superfluous) gives it substance and heft.
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted

superfluous = more than is needed

He was in perfect condition, without an ounce of superfluous flesh
Jack London -- The Call of the Wild

superfluous = more than is desired

For this reason, many things had become superfluous which, although they could not be sold, the family did not wish to discard.
Franz Kafka -- Metamorphosis

superfluous = unnecessary

How superfluous, how intrusive, he would be, if he were to force his way...
Henrik Ibsen -- Hedda Gabler

superfluous = more than is needed, desired, or required

No mouths, no sex organs— all these were superfluous.
Michael Crichton -- The Andromeda Strain

superfluous = unneeded

superfluous = more than is needed

So don't waste time with superfluous questions.
Ralph Ellison -- Invisible Man

superfluous = more than is needed, desired, or required

The entire manoeuvre proved superfluous; no one came except Lewicki, who looked in towards evening, both curious and anxious to find out how I was.
Wladyslaw Szpilman -- The Pianist

superfluous = unnecessary (more than is needed)

I saw no whipping going on, but a couple of big, old Vikings were roaring away, giving mostly superfluous orders and pushing people around.
Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna

superfluous = more than is needed

I have no superfluous leisure; my stay must be stolen out of other affairs;
William Shakespeare -- Measure for Measure

superfluous = more than is needed, desired, or required

Our basest beggars are in the poorest thing superfluous.
William Shakespeare -- King Lear

superfluous = (having) more than is needed

He contented himself with merely drinking his coffee and letting Mrs. Grubach feel that she was superfluous.
Franz Kafka -- The Trial

superfluous = unneeded

I do not feel that the dignity of the court will suffer if we remove a few superfluous outer garments.
Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee -- Inherit the Wind

superfluous = more than is needed

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