Sentence examples for a superfluous exercise from inspiring English sources

Not one of Coulter's arguments is original to her; each is cribbed from the conservative press, which is why searching for specific passages that she has plagiarized, as Maguire and others have done, is a superfluous exercise.

They taught me that embracing the acts and choices of others is a superfluous exercise.

It does mean that the Greek election is a rather superfluous exercise that has done more harm than good, but that is a minor feature in a landscape with much more difficult terrain still to cross.

Yet, all of this proves a rather jejune, superfluous exercise for the columnist.

Rarely did he use a superfluous word.

"It's a superfluous expense".

Turgenev called Ivanov a "superfluous man".

Their verbiage sustains a superfluous metaphysical apparatus.

It became a superfluous and impossible task".

Each clue contained a superfluous word*.

Because I'm a superfluous woman myself".