Sentence examples for are superfluous to from inspiring English sources
"The energy regulator is saying that at least one large and one small power station are superfluous to our energy needs.
In the first story, a woman in a loveless marriage can't disguise "the irritation we always feel towards those who are superfluous to us" and helps do away with the source of her misery.
Dictionaries usually indicate typical objects of such transitive verbs by putting these in brackets, e.g. 'clean (a car, etc)' but it's difficult to do this in a crossword clue when the brackets are superfluous to the surface sense of the wording.
But while these additions are superfluous to many a user's needs, everyone pays for them whether they're used or not.
While the actual diagrams produced here are superfluous to the proof, some visualizing enables us to grasp the central idea.
If you're like me, and you recognize the fact that your Master of Fine Arts degree and your talent for writing dick jokes about politics are superfluous to society's needs, you will probably just take one for the human race and agree to be culled from the survivors.
"There's one chosen one in the family, and everyone else is superfluous to requirements".
Nature is so ever-present, she said, that it is "superfluous" to garden except in pots.
MP3 compression, in particular, squeezes out certain sounds believed to be superfluous to the ear.
Like Isabella Blow, most women internalise their sense of being superfluous to requirements.
