Sentence examples for instead of superfluous from inspiring English sources
She thus looked forward to a society in which small businesses and farms would provide basic, instead of superfluous, needs.
In seaweed flies, high population densities together with an even sex ratio and intense precopulatory female-male battles, suggests that female flies take the costs of superfluous matings instead of increased costs of prolonged battles [48].
In my view it is the culture of snacking — the consumption of superfluous calories between, or perhaps instead of healthy main meals — which is an unhealthy practice in itself".
These reasons are the following: (1 the closedness of is superfluous; (2) is closed instead of being continuous; (3) is a complete metric space instead of is a Banach space; (4) is weakly quasi-nonexpansive with respect to in lieu of being quasi-nonexpansive.
Condiments are basic: lettuce, white onion, superfluous slices of superfluous tomatoes.
Nonetheless, the proliferation of superfluous words is nothing new.
"It's kind of superfluous," Mr. Carroll said.
The proportion of superfluous memoirs is surely no greater than that of superfluous poetry collections or superfluous novels about failed marriages or dysfunctional families — only genre bias singles out the memoir.
Bosch has sold fuel-supply systems for America's fleet of superfluous flex-fuel cars.
(44) doesn't allow a reading on which John got a hair remover that was superfluous and Sarah a remover of superfluous hair.
