Sentence examples for except in a true from inspiring English sources

(Steer clear of emergency rooms except in a true emergency).

In a true winkle, though, declarer has all but one of the remaining tricks, except that he lacks the entries to cash them.

It all sounds like a hipster's paradise... except that a true hipster wouldn't be caught dead in a TGI Fridays.

I will expect nothing in return except recognition as a true patriot.

Except, being a true Londoner, I have to cancel twice before we actually meet up.

Except for one: A true shortage.

Except in true emergencies where searching a mobile phone could, say, avert a terrorist attack, police prying without a warrant violates the Fourth Amendment's bar on "unreasonable" searches, the justices decided.

That used to be broadly true, except in a few specialised areas such as banking, aerospace and military applications that rely on computers and networks being hard to break into and not going wrong.

The opposite is almost never true, except, in a way, for the Bush years.

But in a democracy, the idea of an indispensable leader -- except at the height of a true emergency -- is dangerous and harmful.

Except in cases of true allergy, further dose reductions might improve tolerability and still offer a therapeutic benefit.