Sentence examples for Get except from inspiring English sources

What we rarely get, except at The Homecoming, is the classically balanced meal that risks neither starvation nor indigestion.

Among this year's bestsellers is a "FurReal" robotic puppy called Biscuit, which he says is "as close to being real as you can get, except it doesn't poo or eat expensive food".

Sounds as plain English as you can get, except that it was supposed to be called New Skvir after a Ukrainian town and was inadvertently Anglicized years ago as a result of a clerical error.

"The reason I'm playing this game now is because I love this game and I've got everything I wanted out of this game I could get except a championship," Mourning said.

But while the commission's report included suggestions on how to overhaul the state's complex formulas for distributing school aid, it did not delve into the politically charged question of how much each school district should get, except to say that no district should get any less than it is already receiving.

It's basically the same service paying customers get, except for the limited storage.

I'm not sure what else they could have gotten except my kids' birth certificates".

Each woman rejects all the proposals she gets except the highest-ranked among them.

She does drink orange juice fortified with calcium, but is not sure how much calcium she gets, except, "I get more than my sister".

If someone keeps telling you it's equal, and everyday you see that it isn't, and every day nothing changes, what have you got except your rage?

Through it all, Mr. Sullivan has given at least as well as he has gotten — except, perhaps, when it comes to overt insults.