Synonym: aside from, barring, besides, deny, exclude, reject, save. Similar words: except for, exception, excess, exceed, concept, inception, excessive, perception. Meaning: [ɪk'sept] v. 1. take exception to 2. prevent from being included or considered or accepted.
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181. He thinks that everyone is out of step except him.
182. We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. Francis Bacon
183. Except, of course, their love for the accordion.
184. Anything, in fact, except a normal, healthy,[http://sentencedict.com/except.html] adult female.
185. We'd never have found Pion's people except by accident.
186. There is no failure except in no longer trying. Elbert Hubbard
187. No admittance except on business.
188. I can resist everything except temptation. Oscar Wilde
189. I am fond of children - except boys. Lewis Carroll
190. Further, there are no adverbs or adverbial phrases except those of time and place.
191. The B.A.A. prohibited the drivers from entering the airport except as bonafide airline passengers.
192. The great majority of the population are not allowed to participate in any political activities except those expressly encouraged by the regime.
193. The basic search algorithm is as before, except that actions are of two sorts.
194. Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. Oscar Wilde
195. I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself. Rita Mae Brown
196. Except where * indicates that overnight accommodation for 3 nights in Budapest is on a bed and breakfast basis.
197. So that morning there was life in abundance, except in Charlie's garden.
198. Remember God's bounty in the year. String the pearls of His favor. Hide the dark parts, except so far as they are breaking out in light! Give this one day to thanks, to joy, to gratitude! Henry Ward Beecher
199. Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies. Edgar Watson Howe
200. Computer and software stocks led the advance, which would have been larger except for sliding prices for automakers and retailers.
201. There are no antiprotons or antineutrons, made up from antiquarks, except for a few that physicists produce in large particle accelerators.
202. She was naked except for a tampax and a lot of acrylic paint.
203. You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind. Dale Carnegie
204. It has no other being except that which is bestowed upon it by human activity and consciousness.
205. The thing is, hardly anybody installs a silent alarm these days, except as a supplementary sys-tem.
206. Except for an entitlement to a police car and driver when attending official functions, they receive no formal allowances.
207. None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. Ralph Waldo Emerson
208. I knew of no virtues except truthfulness, obedience, self-sacrifice, total abstinence from alcoholic drinks ....
209. One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything, except a good reputation. Oscar Wilde
210. There is little to fight over except narrow policy niceties that interest only foreign affairs buffs and bore most voters.
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