Sentence examples for superfluous words from inspiring English sources

Cut out superfluous words.

The authors warn against long sentences and superfluous words.

Nonetheless, the proliferation of superfluous words is nothing new.

Here and there, superfluous words were crossed out.

Besides, adding superfluous words and phrases distracts rather than engages our reader.

He believed that just as a machine should have no unnecessary parts, writing need contain no superfluous words.

Every sleepy blink, every superfluous extra word, every gag – we see them coming a thousand miles off.

No superfluous word was allowed to survive.

Rarely did he use a superfluous word.

Each superfluous word or phrase dulls the prose.

Kelly Reichardt's latest film, "Wendy and Lucy," is 80 minutes long — it would fit inside Baz Luhrmann's "Australia" twice, with room to spare — and does not contain a superfluous word or shot.