Sentence examples for extraneous about from inspiring English sources

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There's little extraneous about the elegant Ms. Childs; she tells it like it is.

"Why would I want to do that?" From his brush-cut hair to his skinny legs, there was nothing extraneous about him.

There's little extraneous about her songs, the sort of clean, efficient country-pop most likely to be covered by any number of aspirants, in honky-tonks or on "Idol," for decades to come.

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Marga Barr quickly corrected her, whispering that one does not leave extraneous objects lying about in the glass house.

Nonfiction books that are labours of love can have their disadvantages, such as the desire to include every scrap of material, and instead there are long, extraneous passages about the off-duty exploits of the Conqueror's sailors, and about Sethia in particular, his family background and his post-navy life running a yachting business in the Carribbean.

There was a lot of faffing, and some broad and extraneous evidence about sanctions in general.

"It means that they must not seek out extraneous information about the case they have sworn to try in accordance with the evidence".

The original article included an extraneous sentence about the IPCC referral, and also referred to five cases of alleged racism being handled by the IPCC instead of six.

But she declines to examine such issues in detail, electing instead to pelt the reader with extraneous digressions about "Moby-Dick" and a visit she once made to the New Bedford Whaling Museum.

And in a posthumous review of Lazarus's poems, deKay inserted extraneous comments about her being a "Sibyl Judaica," suggesting that only a Jewish poet could reach "that great world of finance in Europe which is Hebrew, which is so powerful through money-bags and acquired titles, and which seems to use its wealth to so little purpose".

But this film just goes interminably on and on, like some pop video to a prog rock track from hell, padding things out to feature length with all sorts of incredible gibberish and extraneous nonsense about the Mars landing and government conspiracies.

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