Sentence examples for flying except from inspiring English sources

There's nothing to recommend flying except that it's quick.

The British Business and General Aviation Association interprets it to be "all aeroplane and helicopter flying except that performed by the major airlines and the Armed Services".

Rarely are these words met with fanfare and rainbow flags flying, except in the rare instance when your parents already knew and were just waiting for you to admit it.

There's a Chinese saying that we'll eat everything that flies except an aeroplane, eat anything that swims except a boat, and eat anything on four legs except a table.

But he warns that it may take decades to wean many Chinese off a taste for wildlife, wryly reciting a joke about southern Chinese dining habits: "Eat anything that flies except airplanes; eat anything with legs except the table".

He rarely flies – except to Europe, where he will attempt to resurrect what's left of his career this summer – and roams the highways like a hired gun, waiting on gigs from friendly sponsors.

Here, Kettlewell preempts the findings of Liebert and Brakefield, who demonstrated that female B. betularia rarely fly, except for a single dispersal flight following mating, usually on the second night after eclosion (Liebert and Brakefield 1987).

Time flies, except when you're at the German Clock Museum in Furtwangen, Germany.

They seldom fly except as a result of perceived danger, preferring to run into the undergrowth if approached.

The approach and landing were similar to many others we had flown, except the temperature was already more than 92 degrees Fahrenheit, and it was only 10 a.m.

On one hand, L. donovani, which is transmitted by a different species of sand fly outside Europe, might be hosted by most European sand flies, except Phlebotomus papatasi and P. sergenti (17 ).