Sentence examples for except riding from inspiring English sources

In France for one year Mr. Mott feels that he would like some exercise but there is none to be had except riding (he had no horse), tennis (only in the warmish weather) and walking (not strenuous enough).

By Donald Moffat The New Yorker, May 2, 1936 P. 28 In France for one year Mr. Mott feels that he would like some exercise but there is none to be had except riding (he had no horse), tennis (only in the warmish weather) and walking (not strenuous enough).

There's nothing you can do except ride and you need every single limb to do it".

There is only one time he can think of where access became a problem: "After a week of shooting [Law and Order in Los Angeles], I was told I could do whatever I wanted except ride around in a police car," he says.

He didn't care about sports — except for riding, shaking a Martini was his only routine physical exercise.

Family rates, which include meals (no alcohol is served, but you can bring your own) and all activities except horseback riding, massages and ski and bike rentals, are $100 to $150 a night for a suite, and $50 to $112.50 for children.

Fewer still have worked on a story on which nothing is riding except the freedom of the press and maybe the future of the country, as Jason Robards Jr., channeling the Washington Post editor Ben Bradlee, says in "All the President's Men" (1976).

Free, except rides, which cost $1.

The reality is, with some exceptions, blacks and whites don't do many things together except maybe ride the bus and the subways.

Instead of grandeur, there is a smallness about this lawsuit in every way except in the stakes riding on its outcome.

Listen to "A Cynical Challenge to the A.C.A.," Jeffrey Toobin's comment on how the health-care case before the Court is small in every way - except in the stakes riding on it's outcome.