Sentence examples for crowd except for from inspiring English sources

"It's not a good-looking crowd, except for my girlfriend," said an uptown media executive named Brian who was standing on a banquette upstairs.

Not long after the scuffle, a brief tribute to the Olympic hockey tournament was shown on the scoreboard, to virtually no response from the crowd, except for some tepid applause for Ryan Callahan and Chris Drury of the Rangers, and loud boos for Crosby.

"Mitt will get everyone in that crowd, except for one or two," said one business executive who had been watching closely to see if Mr. Christie got into the race, but who asked for anonymity to shed light on private discussions among the New Jersey governor's top supporters.

This is a winning line with most of the crowd, except for the small band of anti-gay protesters holding signs reading, "Homo Sex Is a Sin .But Mr Robinson's delivery of the invocation is also an obvious counterpoint to the prayer that Rick Warren, a popular California pastor, will give on inauguration day.

There are no barriers shielding the crowd, except for snow fencing at the start and finish lines, and crowds tend to cluster around those quirks in the terrain that will offer the most thrills, like the rock pile jump where Saturday night's crash occurred.

There are no barriers separating the vehicles from the crowds, except for snow fencing at the beginning and end of the loop.

This rugged gem of a beach may be narrower, but it's rarely crowded, except for the tropical fish that you can see darting in the startlingly clear water.

All the studies recorded number of people per room as a measure of house crowding, except for one [ 37] that observed children in households, with more than three persons reporting poorer OHRQoL than those children with household size of 1 3 persons.

Desserts, made in house, were crowd pleasers, except for a dense and not-nearly-creamy-enough cheesecake and a hard-to-eat ice cream sandwich.

More than six minutes remained, but most of the crowd of 69,541 — except for the Midshipmen and the Cadets — began to leave.

The limitations of much of the press coverage led, inevitably, to a dangerous oversimplification in which Mubarak was bad and the Tahrir Square crowds were good (except for those men raping women in the square), with Barack Obama speaking for us all when he said: "Egyptians have inspired us… they have changed the world".