Sentence examples for more than extras from inspiring English sources

The other women here, it turned out, served as little more than extras in Serena Williams's comeback star turn.

The house's occupants, meanwhile, are little more than extras, there to laugh at the staff's foibles and pose nobly for the gliding camera like Renaissance portrait subjects.

Similarly, in Danny Boyle's marvellous Olympic opening ceremony, Asians were conspicuous by their absence, no more than extras in the various sets.

Franco — "with his balding head, double chin and little graying mustache" — makes a cameo appearance, but most of the Spaniards in "Winter in Madrid" are little more than extras to the Britons.

For them, it is just a means to an end, an excuse for boozing and betting with the horses as little more than extras, discarded and forgotten once their work is done.

But what was revelatory was the world around her: dozens of brown and black faces, fat inmates and butch dykes, old women with wrinkles and paunches — a cast of female unknowns who on other shows would be no more than extras.

But the 2.0XT gets more than extra power.

Putting things right requires more than extra funding: money is being wasted on privatisation.

But pessimists will say the numbers look right, because it is more than extra bank holidays and excess rainfall that is holding the economy back.

Local retail prices can be the equivalent of over $100 a gallon, more than extra virgin olive oil, or a decent Kentucky bourbon.

But it concluded that soaring fees and drop-out rates meant that a majority left with nothing more than extra debt.Elsewhere in the Americas, though, the story is far more positive.