Sentence examples similar to superfluous wording from inspiring English sources
Every sleepy blink, every superfluous extra word, every gag – we see them coming a thousand miles off.
Cut out superfluous words.
No superfluous word was allowed to survive.
Rarely did he use a superfluous word.
The authors warn against long sentences and superfluous words.
Nonetheless, the proliferation of superfluous words is nothing new.
Each superfluous word or phrase dulls the prose.
Here and there, superfluous words were crossed out.
Incidentally, in his book How To Do The Times Crossword, Brian Greer reminds us that in that paper, "strictly no superfluous words are allowed".
Likewise, sample questions for the third-grade math test, which are intended to measure greater complexity in thinking, looked to me like basic word problems with lots of superfluous words.
The best poems have always seemed to me to be an expression of literature in its purest form, the distillation of an idea with no extraneous details, no superfluous words.
