Sentence examples for functionally superfluous from inspiring English sources

(John Maynard Smith, in noting that sentience is in theory functionally superfluous, is one of the few prominent Darwinians to have acknowledged the depth of the mystery).

This may help to explain why written English has not evolved an orthographic system to represent intonation and the tonic foot; they are functionally superfluous.

The list of "considered functionals" is superfluous.

Superfluous, indeed.

Superfluous man.

You eliminate the superfluous.

That would be superfluous.

The iPad was superfluous.

Are they superfluous?

Many scenes are superfluous.

The applause seems superfluous".