Sentence examples for except for odd from inspiring English sources

During all the years Teresa had known the house no one was employed to help in it, as no one was — except for odd days during the summer — on the farm itself.

Albania has beautiful mountainous countryside and hundreds of kilometers of coastline, unspoiled except for the odd ship that ran aground and was left to rust.

For hundreds of miles around, the landscape is bare of trees except for the odd stump.

At first glance they seem totally traditional except for an odd sheen.

The décor is classic and restrained, except for the odd glitch like white leather Chesterfields.

Then the whole city became black, except for the odd headlight and the flames from oil fires.

He kept his head down, and his spirits up, without resorting to drugs, except for the odd joint.

Sterling used no notes, and except for an odd reference to Dean Martin, the three-minute interview was seamless.

But except for the odd boozer, meth burnout or professional eccentric, they seem unable to evince much pure lunacy.

Yet the soaring windows facing the Hudson are curiously undamaged except for the odd pane or two.

But it is always clear, conversational and unpretentious (except for an odd line near the end: "The time for eating daffodils is past").