His mind appeared blank to the influence of all extraneous matters.

Great care must be taken to ensure that solutions are clean and free of extraneous matter.

He worked for some time on extraneous matters.

Many publications thus expanded to six pages, filled the extra space with extraneous matter, and raised their prices to absorb the tax.

He almost opened his mouth to speak, then rather obviously checked himself, and began to talk of extraneous matters.

I did it; and threw in a good deal of extraneous matter that hadn't anything to do with sugar.

But it was this extraneous matter that helped me to another link.

In other words, extraneous matters like debates and a thorough exploration of the issues can wait.

In the end, he said, the panel did not shove extraneous matters onto the ballot to fit anyone's political agenda.

Black pus still bubbled from it, but he saw extraneous matter caught in the mouth of the fresh cut.