Sentence examples for familiar except for from inspiring English sources

Here a screw tapered to a point, carrying a slotted head and looking very familiar except for its left-handed thread, is described so casually as to suggest that it was a common article.

Three hundred years into the future, our own world is surprisingly familiar, except for things like hovercars, holographic candles and corporate-sponsored police who arrest you and then try to sell you products.

Which all sounds tremendously familiar, except that it is a trap: for it is extremely difficult to decode how these rooms actually worked, what they felt like.

Few of the players waived were familiar names, except perhaps for FRED LEWIS, the rookie cornerback whose fumble after an interception late in the Jacksonville preseason game led to a quirky loss.

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The theme entries are all familiar two-word phrases, except for PRICE DIVE.

In one afternoon, my firstborn child became intimately familiar with the pavement, except for the time he catapulted himself forward off the bike and landed in a bush.

There was nothing familiar for me in the process except a camera with glass on one end!

Familiar territory for McHale.

Familiar questions for any entrepreneur.

Except for the familiar mesh front grill and the winged logo, the two-door GT did not look like a Bentley.