Sentence examples for exceptions not rules from inspiring English sources

Snow is the weather to which poets' imaginations are most beholden; more often than any other it's given centre stage in a poem rather than providing the incidental music, as rain or sunlight might (of course as I write this I'm reminded of Edward Thomas's "After Rain" and Louis MacNeice's "The Sunlight on the Garden" – though I'd argue these as exceptions, not rules).

But these are the exceptions, not the rule.

(Sony and Honda are exceptions, not the rule, among Japanese companies).

But both accept those are ridiculous exceptions, not the rule.

"The ones that survive are the exceptions, not the rule," Dr. Yanagimachi said.

But those are the exceptions, not the rule.

These milestones have generally been the exceptions, not the rule.

But these were actually interesting exceptions, not the rule.

But those instances are the exceptions, not the rule.

The good news is that Japan and Poland are exceptions, not the rule.

But they are exceptions, not the rule.