Sentence examples for except for something from inspiring English sources

Now he hears little noise except for something totally unexpected: the cat that lives out back.

In a Cuencan home on Good Friday, they explained, a bowl of fanesca is a meal in itself, except for something like fruit for dessert, and supper that evening tends to be light.

So now, as Rep. Martin Stutzman truthfully but unfortunately put it, they're just trying "to get something out of this". They don't know what they want except for something that lets them argue they didn't lose.

Moreover, since metaphysics is the first science, nothing else can be its subject, except for something that cannot be demonstrated, since it is self-evident.

His friends' relentless affairs, ardors and conversations about both have no evident counterpart in his own life, except for something brief about transvestites and, later, two suggestive lines about a "Japanese writer" of unknown gender.

"The fact that I was arrested for this at all shows that Japan is still very backwards about women's sexual expression, that it is not acknowledged at all except as something for men's pleasure," Igarashi told Reuters after her first trial hearing.

Mr Khawaja said his medical treatment had been good "except for the force-feeding", something officials deny.

And they all thought that the Columbia logo stood for something prestigious, except in the hip-hop world.

"We didn't have anything particular in mind, except there were clearly plans for something to happen or that someone was planning to do something," Mr. Burgess said.

Johnson plays Alice, a young woman in a happy relationship with her college boyfriend, who longs for something more – except she's not quite sure what she wants.

Except it didn't: like Mr Magoo, it was always mistaking something for something else.