Sentence examples for now superfluous from inspiring English sources

Just as our mugger does not come into this story, not now, anyway — job done, damage complete, he (or she) is now superfluous".

Experience quickly demonstrated, in other words, that a popular vote would work, and the strange contrivance of appointing electors by rules that could shift from state to state and election to election was now superfluous.

So the nervous energy of our pity, now superfluous, is released in laughter.

In some cases, this occurred when two organs performed the same function, thus setting the stage for selection to increase the efficiency of one, then modify the second, and now superfluous organ, for a different function.

Whether it was something as trivial as dipping too heavily into office supplies or free snacks, or a bolder gambit of convincing an employer to give me a "now superfluous" MacBook Pro as I moved on to another job, I have had a long career of getting shit for free that likely took root all those summers ago.

As the parent end plate/muscle fibers become more active, the initial sproutings, now superfluous, become withdrawn.

Let us now profile superfluous men.

The black population, now largely superfluous, has been recriminalised.

His offices — he has three of them, for various bureaucratic reasons — overflowed with books that now seem superfluous: endless volumes on the perestroika years, books about transitions to democratic governance.

Here, as in the US, it seems like the vocation of combined research and teaching that occupies university faculty has fallen on hard times, becoming an easy target for political grandstanding and claims by governments that some things once valued have now become superfluous or simply too expensive.

The black population, now largely superfluous, has been recriminalized.