Sentence examples for exception to the typical from inspiring English sources
Mr. Rove is the exception to the typical hand-wringing, woe-is-us politician or policy wonk who complains about everything but never has a solution.
However, there is an exception to the typical "experience pecking order": when a player comes along who is so fantastic that he makes time stop.
Except for being hung by my wrists on a wall for three days and being beaten by a sadistic lieutenant (an exception to the typical investigators), I was humanely treated, both in the interrogation center at Fort Santiago in Manila and in the disciplinary barracks where I was confined for seven months.
The Murngin are not typical even of Australian native cultures, representing a bloody exception to the typical pattern of little to no intergroup conflict.
The Three Sisters form the centerpiece of a region of closely grouped volcanic peaks, an exception to the typical 40-60 mile spacing between volcanoes elsewhere in the Cascades.
As far as we know, the only exception to the typical "truncated cone" shape occurs in the superfamily Pinnipedia (seals and walrus).
There have been exceptions to the typical portrait of justices growing up middle class or wealthy.
Here we show that bacteria living in a single genus of feather lice, Columbicola (Insecta: Phthiraptera), present an exception to this typical pattern.
There is a typical exception to the confidentiality clause in the agreement that stipulates it does not apply if the parties are presented with "a valid subpoena".
But it's typical enough behavior that the opposite — openness and the desire to seek improvement — seems like the exception to the rule.
