except
[ɪkˈsept]
Definition:
1. Take exception to.
2. Prevent from being included or considered or accepted.
'except' example sentence:
- Many of the bodies were unidentifiable except by dental records.
- Except for traffic noise the night passed peacefully.
- I wouldn't have accepted anything except a job in Europe.
- I wouldn't have accepted anything except a job in New York.
- There was no light except for the occasional glow of a cigarette.
- There was no post except the usual junk addressed to the occupant.
- They all came except Matt.
- No one can open mail except the person to whom it has been addressed.
- Except for her illnesses, she had had a particularly happy childhood.
- We would have come straight here, except our flight got in too late.
- He hadn't eaten a thing except for one forkful of salad.
- Except for her illnesses, she had a particularly happy childhood.
- The snow, except where it drifted, was only calf-deep.
- She was unlike him in every way except for her coal black eyes.
- I know nothing about him except that he knocked about South Africa for a while.
- The overnight train runs every night of the week except Saturdays.
- Everyone seems busy except us.
- The building was darkened except for a single light burning in a third-storey window.
- The company said it would pay in full all its creditors except Credit Suisse.
- They didn't have to do anything except sit back and enjoy life.
- They are banned from launching any flights except to transport people.
- The room was silent except for her sobbing.
- There's nothing except sport and repeats on TV.
- I sold everything I owned except for my car and my books.
- Everyone was late, except for Richard.
- We don't do much in the evenings except watch television.
- He's cut loose from this business except, possibly, where James is concerned.
- I didn't tell him anything except that I needed the money.
- I had nothing on except for my socks.
- The room was silent except for the TV.
- I like all sports except football.
- Prisoners were allowed no personal possessions except letters and photographs.
- They live in a remote area, inaccessible except by car.
- You'd swear he was a cardboard cut-out except that he'd moved his rifle.
- The walls were bare except for a clock.
- Our dresses were the same except mine was red.
- My master ordered me not to deliver the message except in private.
- At school, it simply wasn't done to show that you cared for anything except cricket.
- Children under five are excepted from the survey.
- There was no mail except the usual junk addressed to the occupant.
- Except for the remarkably tidy kitchen, the place was a mess.
- There is nothing we can do except dig in and wait.
- There was silence now except for the distant sea, a slight zephyr stirring the trees.
- You can visit the whole palace except for the private apartments.
- Arrange all the vegetables except the potatoes in layers.
- The sanctions ban the sale of any products excepting medical supplies and food.
- Money was a commodity she never thought about except in the abstract.
- We work every day except Sunday.