How to Use redundant in a Sentence

redundant

adjective

• Some people say that since all adages are old, the phrase “old adage” is redundant.
• He edited the paper and removed any redundant information or statements.
• Avoid redundant expressions in your writing.
• By the time the U.S. could put such a passport process in place would be redundant.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
• Most if not all of these switches are redundant with those in the touch-screen menus.
  — Dan Neil, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2022
• The office isn’t the only place that may soon be redundant.
  — NBC News, 31 May 2017
• With a near five-hour run time, there are bits of jeen-yuhs that are redundant and long-winded.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Essence, 25 Jan. 2022
• That’s in case the redundant computers that control the machine should fail at the same time.
  — Robert Mark, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2021
• The skills sets of Poeltl and Eubanks are somewhat redundant.
  — Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Apr. 2021
• In their case the credit is redundant and should not be given.
  — Robert Verbruggen, National Review, 19 Dec. 2019
• By such standards, the function of a place like Treehouse in a city like L.A. ought to be redundant.
  — Nathan Heller, The New Yorker, 28 June 2021
• Scary stories about the future are redundant when the task of dealing with the present is so urgent.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2021
• So many things are bound to be redundant, like the look of bobsled after bobsled hurtling down the same track.
  — Phil Rosenthal, chicagotribune.com, 26 Feb. 2018
• The world is full of delights that might appear on paper to be redundant but aren’t.
  — Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 1 July 2023
• To describe a rapper as a lover of things like wordplay and turn-of-phrase might be redundant.
  — Chris Varias, Cincinnati.com, 11 Nov. 2019
• The two servers were redundant, so if one melted down the other would work as a backup.
  — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2021
• But even apps that are not redundant can also be risky.
  — Ritish Puttaparthi, Forbes, 17 May 2022
• No one had ever been made quite as redundant as Win was.
  — Deborah Orr, The New York Review of Books, 7 Feb. 2020
• But, yeah, the day-to-day grind does get pretty redundant (after) doing it for a long time.
  — Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 Jan. 2023
• This is the organism’s source code, durable and redundant.
  — Christof Koch, Scientific American, 6 Oct. 2021
• Sardone says to start at the top of the room, such as dusting a ceiling fan, and work your way down to the floor to eliminate redundant work.
  — Brett Martin, Popular Mechanics, 29 Nov. 2022
• Zap anything redundant that’s taking up space on the cloud from that out-of-focus sunset to those dozens of videos of the same scene.
  — Juliet Kinsman, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Apr. 2023
• While there are flashes of brilliance on the record, Vultures feels too redundant to be a great Kanye West record.
  — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 21 Feb. 2024
• In the original, there was a lot of backstory, and some things that felt redundant.
  — James Hebert, sandiegouniontribune.com, 22 Mar. 2018
• Layers of redundant safety are built out and out and out from the reactor that powers the plant.
  — Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, 2 Dec. 2020
• The questions can be boring and redundant (not, of course, those from Glamour).
  — Stephanie McNeal, Glamour, 16 Feb. 2024
• To tell you the truth, Scarlet Centurion is the most redundant of all the Kang variants.
  — Tribune News Service, cleveland, 24 July 2021
• Still, in one sense, OTF projects are redundant — but only because of Pack’s work.
  — Jimmy Quinn, National Review, 1 Oct. 2020
• For example, having a redundant colon (also known as a tortuous colon) means that part of the large intestine is longer than normal.
  — Cristina Mutchler, Health, 19 Oct. 2024
• Some items might appear redundant but are actually quite useful.
  — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 13 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024