Sentence examples for superfluous items from inspiring English sources

(If you have ever held a garage sale or sold some superfluous items on eBay, you'll instantly understand the solution).

After preliminary public hearings, Troy announced he found some new superfluous items that Beame had overlooked such as 400 unneeded city-owned cars, or 400 car telephones, or 3650 desk-bound patrolmen.

Any user can have his or her own shop and list superfluous items for sale online without much supervision.

Second, the firm likes companies that make products people need, as opposed to superfluous items they only want.

Since governments have been devoting resources (read: money) to fighting the recession, they have less money to buy "superfluous" items like computers for kids.

He was later involved in an incident where, acting as twelfth man, he performed his duties on the ground in a suit and tie (rather than 'whites'), carrying a bizarre range of superfluous items.

On his first encounter with Jack Worthing, he briskly surveys him as if he were a superfluous item of furniture.

On Thursday we fill our hearts and bellies with gratitude and food, and on Friday we fill our trunks with superfluous consumer items.

Items were then subject to reliability testing, to account for the consistency of participant response, followed by item reduction, to remove superfluous and nonessential survey items.

Linda's Mini Kitchen, east side of Eighth Avenue between 57th and 58th Streets, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, (917) 405-6375; morning to 8 30 p.m., does post an English-language menu, but it's almost superfluous when the featured items are front and center: southern Chinese skewers like scallop, green pepper and taro (each $1.50 or less).

If an item is superfluous, just say no.