Examples of superfluity in a Sentence

spends most of her money on designer clothes and other superfluities a superfluity of wire coat hangers from all of those trips to the dry cleaner

Recent Examples on the Web Not quite as aged as the añejo, Clase Azul Reposado delivers a superfluity of flavor highlighted by cooked agave, tropical fruit, vanilla and toffee. — Jason O'bryan, Robb Report, 20 July 2022 Sort of like a proto –Yeezus, except instead of rapping about falling in love with a Kardashian, Blanco rapped with a sly wit about the superfluity of gender. — Jeff Ihaza, Rolling Stone, 28 June 2021 Not quite as aged as the añejo, Clase Azul Reposado delivers a superfluity of flavor highlighted by cooked agave, tropical fruit, vanilla and toffee. — Jason O'bryan, Robb Report, 27 Apr. 2021 The twisting trails here are great to explore on horseback or mountain bike, with a superfluity of waterfalls offering excellent end points (check out Hardraw Force, Janet's Foss, and Aysgarth Falls). — Jonathan Thompson, Travel + Leisure, 14 Mar. 2021 The sequel serves up plenty for specialists to chew on, not least a Jack Nicholson look-alike—insofar as that’s possible—behind the hotel bar, yet these semi-reconstructions betray an odd sense of superfluity and strain. — Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 8 Nov. 2019 Under low light, these faded, wispy clippings from the cutting-room floor suggest a superfluity of ideas that might have supplied a lifetime of inspiration to other artists. — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2019 Perhaps the excess and superfluity of our present-day leaders’ clothing is a subconscious compensation for not being clothed with power from on high? — Troy Patterson, The New Yorker, 14 June 2019 The skull and its accompanying void inhabit a more abstract reality, a statement stripped of all superfluity. — Teju Cole, New York Times, 18 Jan. 2018 See More

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