extraneous

Example Sentences

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Ms. Fanning is important in playing Marissa’s sympathetic friend and partner in guilt; in her job as a book marketer, she has something of an extraneous subplot to pursue.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 5, 2025

"He was just quietly sitting there, taking script pages out, cutting them up, removing extraneous stuff like scene descriptions, and then sticking them back onto blank pages," he said.

From BBC • Mar. 1, 2025

No note was extraneous or wasted—and he understood more than most the mutually beneficial relationship between sound and vision.

From Salon • Jan. 29, 2025

Vitrines holding wildly different white or black objects make no sense, because whatever might be the specific visual point of the art objects is extraneous.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2024

The key to making subject and verb agree is to correctly identify the subject, and for that you have to simplify the sentence in your mind and eliminate the extraneous stuff.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner