Sentence examples for by except from inspiring English sources

The try statement, which allows exceptions raised in its attached code block to be caught and handled by except clauses; it also ensures that clean-up code in a finally block will always be run regardless of how the block exits.

His writings hardly ever mention the great philosophers of days gone by, except in passing.

She went on: "In my daily life, there's no one else that I feel threatened by except black people.

I went to the village and found him, and it was as though no time had gone by, except he now had four children.

I wear a hearing aid in that ear and can get by except in the presence of high background noise (cocktail party effect).

This five-hour evening (with two intermissions) flew by, except, of course, for those worrisome moments when the machine creaked and crashed.

The political class, she said, "should not distinguish itself by excepting itself" from its own laws.

The SNP recorded the sorts of swings ordinarily only found in by-elections, except across Scotland.

At least with salts, there is no sell-by date, except for the herb-flavored ones.

I've slept by myself, except for rare exceptions, for almost nine years.

All the beds are occupied by adults – except one.