Sentence examples for except on official occasions from inspiring English sources

Mr. Carter, Mr. Clinton and Mr. Gore have rarely come together except on official occasions.

Ashbaugh, a UCLA graduate who sports a handlebar mustache and wears plaid shirts except on official occasions, sat in his office next to the barren reactor lab recently and reminisced about the Argonaut.

Although he understands English perfectly, he apparently prefers not to speak it, on official occasions at least.

Except on one occasion.

His funds were gone, and except on one occasion he could not bring himself to seek paid employment.

The harassment included the boys and their white girlfriends regularly getting pulled over, and on several occasions arrested on charges that never stuck (except on one occasion).

No, not particularly, except on those occasions when I breathe in too deeply and choke on my own decadence.

The department stores are usually closed except on rare occasions and even the markets pack up by lunchtime.

But Jesus does not claim to be Messiah either, except on two occasions, both of which are historically dubious.

In fact, stylish millinery is an endangered species, except on special occasions like weddings and garden luncheons.

Dams and irrigation systems, except on rare occasions, leave the Gila River dry for most of its length.