Sentence examples for boys except from inspiring English sources

Boys will be boys except when they're girls in boys' clothes.

The class was all boys, except for one girl with a blond braid.

Retired and home with her boys, except for the occasional board meeting, she calls herself "extraordinarily happy".

Life is relatively uncomplicated and free of hormonal insurgency: boys, except for Dad, are yucky and gross and smell like dirty sneakers.

All of the boys except Jake Proper, who was wearing a seatbelt in the front passenger seat, were thrown on the road.

Most of the women were over 16 when they were sexually assaulted by the DJ, the draft report says, but all the boys except one were under that age.

The singer reunited with his original band The Blue Moon Boys, excepting bassist Bill Black.

He looked like a scrawny gingerbread boy, except that he was wearing surgical gloves.

This is not something she would share with a little boy, except perhaps obliquely, through some of the stories and fairy tales she told, the books she read, a hair-raising Schopenhauerian world view".

It's not Rupert who is behind this, it's James Murdoch, who has got a few things to prove – that he's not daddy's boy except in his genetic make-up.

In other words, he is your typical 13-year-old boy- except for the fact that he is confined to a wheelchair and has limited use of his arms.