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
• The season is a tight six episodes, and no scene feels extraneous or too short.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Alas, the list is just another extraneous detail in a film full of them.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2023
• 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
• To the serious sports-car buyer these are extraneous details, mere trimmings around the main course, which in the SE's case is its engine.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 1 Feb. 2023
• Here, everything extraneous has been removed with its bridges and plates all merging in the center of the movement.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 31 Jan. 2024
• There was nothing extraneous [in the game presentation] except for the fans and the players.
  — Jeff Andrews, Curbed, 1 Mar. 2021
• At the same time, the close-fitting memory foam earcups help to block out extraneous noise passively.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• And of course, while Hannah is cleaning her wounds, there’s an extraneous shot of her undressing.
  — Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 May 2021
• In martial arts, the master will sit quietly at the start of the training, mediating to clear the mind of all the extraneous thoughts that hinder the teaching process.
  — Greg Story, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022
• Watch Duty weeds out all of Twitter’s extraneous chatter and shoots straight for its core goal: telling people where a fire is right now, and where it is headed.
  — Boone Ashworth, WIRED, 17 Aug. 2022
• That’s why its nearly three-hour overkill includes an extraneous nemesis, Christoph Waltz as Blofeld.
  — Armond White, National Review, 8 Oct. 2021
• The style is based on stripping away anything extraneous, any distracting detail, to get to what the artist believes is the unfiltered truth of the subject.
  — Philip Kennicott, Washington Post, 7 Sep. 2022
• The chef is seen adding plenty of olive oil to a skillet of ingredients, prompting Flay to poke fun at his extraneous oil usage.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 17 Aug. 2023
• The Toronto team via Buffalo now plays in Dunedin, Fla. and extra innings still have the extraneous runner.
  — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 25 Apr. 2021
• Trimming extraneous stuff from the proceedings, such as the winners’ walks to the stage, creates more time for sexier parts of the show, such as performances.
  — WSJ, 28 Mar. 2022
• Nobody is as extraneous this time around, including a great Hope Davis as an oil baroness with a keen interest in both Della and Ham.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2023
• When the switches are put back together, this film will remove empty space between the two halves of the switch, causing the fit to be tighter and, in turn, reducing extraneous noise.
  — Henri Robbins, WIRED, 25 Jan. 2024
• The flipping-over component felt extraneous to me, as if the producers of this game just needed something for the other person to do.
  — Kyndall Cunningham, Vulture, 19 Aug. 2021
• But no one knew whether the pancreas was an essential organ, like the stomach, or extraneous, like the appendix.
  — James P. Brody, The Conversation, 21 July 2021
• That may well be, but the appeal of Silano’s raw material tends to undermine any attempt to weigh it down with extraneous ideas.
  — Vince Aletti, The New Yorker, 6 May 2022

Last Updated: 28 May 2024