Sentence examples for except for the rain from inspiring English sources

I slipped out into the soft, watery world of Alaskan rain-forest night, soundless except for the rain, and wandered in my pajamas down the other side of the street, peering in dark, low living room windows and listening at doors, until at one door I heard a humming sound that was unfamiliar to me.

Keli with NBC's Andrea Mitchell, super-glam in a long strapless gown with a fabulous train — fabulous except for the rain, alas, and the buckets dotting the long, winding and now semi-puddly entranceway into Bloomberg.

Except for the rain delay — we don't get a lot of that back home". Pratto, who said this series will be the end of his managing career, told me that organizers take special care to shield the players from too many distractions.

The last few billion years of its history have been calm and essentially geologically inactive except for the continuing rain of impacts, which is also declining over time, and the microscopic weathering due to bombardment by solar and cosmic radiation and particles.

Herdsmen Wait for the Rain.

Some can now be bought online for a few pence, except Rider on the Rain, one edition of which is more than £500.

Bitis arietans is a venomous viper species found in savannah and grasslands from Morocco and western Arabia throughout Africa except for the Sahara and rain forest regions.

Gaining entry was a big adrenaline rush and the film could never live up to my adolescent expectations, except for the Singin' in the Rain rape sequence which was technically brilliant but gut‑wrenchingly shocking.

Advancing towards Lunga Point, they encountered no resistance except for "tangled" rain forest, and halted for the night about 1000 m from the Lunga Point airfield.

The drivers hoped that with the rally taking place on higher altitudes, wintery conditions and burle (a freezing wind blowing from the north) would produce ice and snow on the ground, making for a more exciting event; however, except for some rain on Thursday evening it never came to fruition and the prevailing weather was clear and dry.

Variables of high importance in both CART and parametric analysis are almost the same, except for rain which is non significant in the logistic regression.