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Example sentences for: superfluous

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Samuel Johnson deplored the superfluous, emphatic use of do , as in I do love: he considered it vitious.
It is also expected to affect genome evolution, accelerating the loss of genes that are entirely superfluous as well as those that are beneficial but not essential.
I am glad with the gladness of the lover of truth: the man has always been superfluous."
The biography reveals fascinating details about Evans' life and provides a new insight into his art, but critics say it gets weighted down by superfluous material the author would likely have removed had he finished the book, resulting in a somewhat "exasperating" tome (Margaret Loke, the New York Times ). Even worse, the ending, which details Evans' final years and death from drinking, is still in the form of unfinished notes by Mellow.
It can even be argued that word forms used to show tense are superfluous, since Chinese has no notion of tense.