Sentence example with the word 'surplusage'

surplusage

Definition n. a quantity much larger than is needed

Last update: October 25, 2015


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Thus besides the resolution of spirit necessary to the work, there had to be pumped up a surplusage to meet the demands of difficult dog-driving.   [Please select]

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In Corot, anyone, I suppose, can see this note, and it would be surplusage to insist upon it.   [Please select]

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Though the labouring mind exert and strain each power to its utmost reach, there still stands out ungrasped a surplusage immeasurable.   [Please select]

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Never had he been favored with a surplusage of the root of all evil.   [Please select]

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More money than this--that is the surplusage that men lock up in their tin boxes, is a curse.   [Please select]

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"That was surplusage, Trampas," said he, "if yu' mean the other."'   [Please select]

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