How to Use extraneous in a Sentence

extraneous

adjective

• She sped up the process by eliminating all extraneous steps.
• The summer concert season is at hand, which means lots of warm nights wishing the guy in the row behind you would bogart that joint instead of blowing smoke into your hair, and lots of days spent wondering just how many extraneous … charges one ticket can possibly have added on.
  — Entertainment Weekly, 18 May 2001
• Wipe through the fridge to get any extraneous drips and spills.
  — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2021
• There's a lot of extraneous things we get wrapped up in this world.
  — Reid Forgrave, Star Tribune, 11 June 2021
• That was kind of the mission: to take all the extraneous factors away from the art of creation.
  — Natalie Weiner, Billboard, 22 Sep. 2017
• The season is a tight six episodes, and no scene feels extraneous or too short.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
• One of her strengths is a lack of fuss, her ability to cull the extraneous.
  — Chris Jones, chicagotribune.com, 2 June 2017
• Take, for instance, the extraneous shirt tied around the waist of Portia's Zara crochet minidress in the third episode.
  — Hanna Lustig, Glamour, 6 Dec. 2022
• Just drop the extraneous word and enjoy the tighter writing.
  — WSJ, 12 Jan. 2023
• Here are all the strange, extraneous and bizarre ideas that were cut from the latest Avengers scripts, according to the film’s writers.
  — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 19 July 2019
• Testers found the high ankle swallowtail feature to be a bit extraneous, though the heel cup does hold the foot in place.
  — Outside Online, 27 July 2022
• So, as is often the case with this extraneous game, the main focus will be on the newcomers.
  — Chris Burke, SI.com, 3 Aug. 2017
• The answer though is not to add an extraneous purpose on top.
  — Steve Denning, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
• Each of these celebrations was a time to block out the extraneous noise of the workaday world and feast on food and freedom.
  — New York Times, 6 June 2022
• The long, smooth curves of the Riviera's body are unusually free of cut lines and extraneous chrome trim.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 23 Feb. 2021
• Alas, the list is just another extraneous detail in a film full of them.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
• The argument over the role of this seemingly extraneous DNA has swung back and forth.
  — Diana Gitig, Ars Technica, 31 Oct. 2017
• What is the best time to prune trees (suckers from plum trees; extraneous branches from a Japanese maple in a pot)?
  — The Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2020
• Every extraneous piece of equipment had been removed to make space for the rangers, who clambered in with their weapons.
  — Tristan McConnell, GQ, 16 Apr. 2018
• As the branches grow, continue to tie them to their support wires and prune away any extraneous shoots.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 19 June 2019
• To alter the rhyming couplets with extraneous emotion or a hint of free will would be a form of blasphemy.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2018
• Little is extraneous, but the space isn’t perfect, and that’s on purpose.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 6 Aug. 2024
• In other ways, Christian clears the extraneous from their lives.
  — Anndee Hochman, Philly.com, 13 Feb. 2018
• Events and scenes are meaningful; rarely is there an extraneous or ragged thread.
  — Christine Smallwood, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• The brilliance of this dish is its simplicity; there are no extraneous flavors to get in the way of the purity of the guacamole.
  — cleveland, 15 June 2020
• The later song clocks in at nearly 14 minutes but doesn’t have one extraneous note.
  — George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Sep. 2021
• CEOs would often get all the credit and money for good times and then blame El Nino or some extraneous force for the downside.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 30 Jan. 2023
• By contrast, the Trump boycotts, from both the left and the right, have been driven by issues extraneous to the targets’ core business practices.
  — James Surowiecki, The New Yorker, 9 Jan. 2017
• In the wild these processes may not be extraneous, so that those without them may grow faster, but then perish.
  — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 11 July 2012
• Burls on trees are extraneous growths caused from damage, stress, or disease.
  — Lauren Bengtson, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 3 Nov 2024