Sentence examples for superfluous for a from inspiring English sources

That last detail seems a little superfluous for a player who has been available to watch without flying to Gabon or Equatorial Guinea for the past 18 months.

Praise is superfluous for a performance like this.

On the medal-winning teams, first names were superfluous for an N.H.L. aficionado.

In fact that question mark had been superfluous for more than a week, since Lance Armstrong won the first of the Tour's two Pyrenean stages at the grim little ski resort of La Mongie.

Coincidentally, they also conduct electricity, a superfluous capability for a gear.

But the tables are lacking, as if to say, "Who has the time for refreshments on an eight minute ride?" A few minutes into the high-velocity excursion, a voice came over the loudspeaker to announce that the next stop will be Long Yang Road Station, an oddly superfluous declaration for a train that makes no other stops.

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.

In Haughton's world, waste is the enemy, so ingredients are divvied up between the operations: what might be superfluous for one part finds a use in the other; something left over from one service can be used by another part of the operation at the next.

Gene neutralization can also occur due to targeted relaxation of selection on a gene that became superfluous for the endosymbiont, as in the case in which a gene is involved in a redundant function with another gene (Moran et al. 2008; Moya et al. 2008).

Edith went to a class on marrying a millionaire, which was superfluous for her since she has been married to one for most of her seventy years.

The Whitney Museum's description of an upcoming show of her work there as "a midcareer retrospective" seems superfluous for someone who has never not been in midcareer.