Sentence examples for to superfluous from inspiring English sources

The Panthers dropped in status from superstars to superfluous.

For when it comes to superfluous plastic packaging, Easter eggs take the proverbial chocolate fondant filling.

When had he been sure he would win? — and he answered in the monosyllables, or pairs of them, that are his habitual response to superfluous inquiries.

But the very structure of development is a brake on innovation: from mass builders that insist on bland design so as to appeal to a wide market; to planners that insist on "in keeping" pastiches of earlier domestic technology leading to superfluous additions such as stick-on fake chimneys; to local authorities that trouser huge payments for enabling developers to throw up flats rapidly.

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

Due to process nonlinearities and operating condition changes, industrial processes frequently encounter significant dynamics variations, which would compromise the long-term effectiveness of controller monitoring schemes and leads to superfluous alarms.

MP3 compression, in particular, squeezes out certain sounds believed to be superfluous to the ear.

This results in items of advice that recommend users to add new drugs or to remove superfluous ones, or to change dosages of existing medicines.

Repetitive and mobile elements are predicted to proliferate in the early stages of bacterial symbiont evolution due to relaxed selection to maintain superfluous genes (Moran and Plague 2004).

Our approach to reduce over-fitting is somewhat similar to iterative backward elimination, a standard technique in regression to remove superfluous parameters.

People were reluctant to get into elevators when operators began to be superfluous.