Sentence examples for be surplus from inspiring English sources
adjective
Being or constituting a surplus; more than sufficient; as, surplus revenues; surplus population; surplus words.
I may be surplus, in a sense, when everyone is fit.
The Giraffe restaurants and Harris + Hoole, the coffee chain, could be surplus to requirements.
"In the next year or two, in most parts of the country, there will be surplus capacity".
In 2008 he deemed Mathieu Flamini, David Trezeguet, Philippe Mexès and Gaël Clichy to be surplus to requirements.
The misfit Italian, who was deemed by Jürgen Klopp to be surplus to requirements, joins on a one-year deal.
After he exited, the Nationals added insurance in the eighth with Ian Desmond's solo home run, but the run proved to be surplus.
"My bedroom was surplus to its requirements.
The remainder is "surplus labour," and the value it produces is "surplus value".
(1) Such reductions are surplus, permanent, quantifiable, and federally enforceable.
Otherwise, it implies that the water resources are surplus.
Most are "surplus" cubs, bred by zoos, or their descendants.
