Sentence examples for were extraneous from inspiring English sources
adjective
Not belonging to, or dependent upon, a thing; without or beyond a thing; foreign
- To separate gold from extraneous matter
"They were extraneous parts in the machine that was society".
"I gave her things that I thought were extraneous, yes," Mr. Duncan said.
Despite an administration threat to veto the bill, the Senate voted 87 to 10 on Thursday to limit debate on the emergency spending measure and quickly disposed of efforts to cut projects that critics said were extraneous.
"That's the best pivot I've ever seen," Sanders said, as though questions about actual coups in actual countries, and the actual American position on them, were extraneous to the White House briefing.
When lawyers for several Florida citizens supporting Mr. Bush asked to intervene in the case, asserting that their rights as voters would be violated by the contest, David Boies, Mr. Gore's lead trial lawyer, objected, saying the parties were extraneous and would slow the process.
I cut out the parts of the landscape that I thought were extraneous to the action of light moving across and down the rock, and added a deep golden color to the negative space.
The effort is extraneous.
Slushy details are extraneous.
"Those would be extraneous details".
"It's extraneous to the matter at hand".
I seemed, as a woman, to be extraneous.
