Sentence examples for folks except from inspiring English sources

Dale said he'd been clean these three years on the run; and didn't leave the state of Florida because of his folks, except he's never seen them.

The cultivated plants consumed by all folks except hunter-gatherers have evolved an ambiguous relationship with people, in which they exchange the risk of being eaten by a human for the reproductive security that domestication brings.

We're supposed to pretend that we're like everyone else, just folks, except that we get into theaters free and the members of the public have to stand in line, pay through the nose and then sometimes sit so close to the screen, and so far to one side, that the actors look like walking sticks.

I caddied for all of these folks (except Tiger, the Beatles, and the King), yet none ever asked me to come to work for them.

It's been a wild ride, folks, and (excepting D.C). it is almost one for the history books.

The characters in the play Peter has just brought to the Young Vic, The Suit, might be described as simple township folk – except that such people don't exist and never have.

To quail from an unpleasant situation is, of course, very human and -- excepting folks who are consciously profiting from their denial -- worthy of compassion.

Folk dance, except in Iran, has almost always been mimetic or narrative, a tradition still fostered by many tribes.

It's hard to muster up strong feelings about his unassuming folk-pop – except perhaps amazement that it sells at such a furious pace.

But if the atmosphere one night a month around the tiny stage is devoid of time-warp folk style except for the clothes worn by the proudly hippy-fied Mr. Agranoff, that is O.K. by him.

For the most part, they are conventional folk art — except for several by a Shaker woman named Hannah Cohoon, who lived in the Hancock community, and who was a kind of Emily Dickinson of drawing.