Sentence examples for are except from inspiring English sources
preposition
With the exception of; but.
- There was nothing in the cupboard except a tin of beans.
The blackout on Thursday allowed New Yorkers to be whoever they are, except more so.
The great man was not without barnacles, as none of us are, except for Dennis Lillee.
I don't know who these protestors are, except they are Egyptian and so my job is to treat them".
The shop stewards' movement and the trade union movement itself are, except in the public services, shadows of their past.
What's more, you can tell she can't quite identify what those feelings are, except that she knows that they hurt.
As the commentators and analysts like to say, "You are what your record says you are," except here, it seems.
/ I don't even know where the hell we are, except that there are a lot of boarded up stores, and not a pedestrian to be seen.
Why not allow awards shows to be the intermittent bores they always are, except to the tense nominees in the audience and the truly interested viewers at home?
To vote where they have weekend homes, individuals must of course give up the right to vote where their primary residences are -- except in Mountain Village, Colo.
The haunting and heartwarming works are -- except for Kurt Weill's popular suite from "The Threepenny Opera" -- by composers born late in the 19th century: Igor Stravinsky, Arnold Schoenberg and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. (Weill was born in 1900).
Heard in no context but their own, the concertos could be appreciated as the small masterpieces they are -- except that Ms. Mutter made them big ones, light only in their simple wonder.
