Sentence examples for the extraneous from inspiring English sources

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the extraneous

adjective

Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; foreign

  • To separate gold from extraneous matter

Exact(59)

Remove all the extraneous stuff.

Death had scoured it of the extraneous.

Which meant that the extraneous subplots had to go.

Judge Millette told Mr. Muhammad to avoid the extraneous remarks.

"What I did want was to edit, to cut out the extraneous contortions".

But it's hard to pick out amidst all the extraneous goings-on.

O'Neill took the opposite tack: he shed all the extraneous businesses and made nothing but aluminum.

Whereas this one I hope is all about the choreography and not the extraneous stuff".

"He closed off the extraneous and focused exactly on what counted in the view".

Look at the facts, cut through the extraneous, devise a workable solution and get it done.

The mill of the conventional has its dangers, but so does the grind of the extraneous.

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