Sentence examples for except for the familiar from inspiring English sources

Except for the familiar mesh front grill and the winged logo, the two-door GT did not look like a Bentley.

They have the same blue-and-white trucks, the same menu, the same everything, except for the familiar picture of an ice cream cone wearing a bow tie and a darn-glad-to-meet-ya smile: Mister Softee himself.

Nobody in the N.F.L. is worrying about Manning anymore, except for the more familiar concern about how to stop him.

One of the objects was always placed in a novel location, except during the choice phase for the "familiar" version of the SLR task (see Figure 1), in which the two objects (A4 and A5) were both placed in familiar locations.

Except now the familiar pessimism comes with a twist.

Consider, for example, the familiar duck/rabbit.

It all seems normal enough – except for the fact that this familiar playground scene is taking place beneath a gigantic inflatable dome.

This biography describes a brainy, charming, pot-smoking, emotionally remote Columbia student -- except for the pot part, sound familiar?

There's no weapons, no combat, and no immediate conflict except for the slowly-unfurling mystery and the familiar creepiness of being in a big, creaky old place with an unsolved problem, alone.

At the top lay train tracks in disuse except for the occasional "hobo" tramping a familiar path.

Above all, except for the indefatigable James, Wade flashed his old familiar hops on the way to the hoop and to an occasion-rising 21-point night.