Sentence examples for except call from inspiring English sources

It's a stalwart car that does everything well except call attention to itself.

Mr Khatami, trying to avoid open conflict with his political opponents, has not dared to do much, except call gently for an end to violence.

But since Mahoney doesn't want it known that he once had an affair with her, there's nothing he can do about this mess — except call for DeMarco to bring his bucket and clean it up.

By 1995, she didn't know what to do except call on an old friend, Frank Military, the producer and record executive, and tell him she needed a record deal.

There is no moment in the year when it is harder to get people's attention, as I can testify, having done little else since last Sunday except call and e-mail people who could possibly join me in bringing attention to Bei Ling's plight.

All instructions except call and return are guaranteed cache hits.

Except calling them agents is not enough: they are "super agents", the football equivalent of Cindy Crawford, Eva Herzigova and the other supermodels on the famous Vogue cover of 1990.

Might as well call it unlimited voice – no one actually remembers the last time they called someone on a land line except calling AT&T to complain about service.

For starters, I set it to block phone calls at certain times of the day, except calls from my kids and that one call I've been waiting for.

He was quiet, except to call out the score.

Donoghue doesn't comment further, except to call Beckett's French sentence "gnomic".