Sentence examples for ladies except from inspiring English sources

The magazine has published photographs of all of the first ladies except Bess Truman, the wife of President Harry S. Truman.

The place of a peer in the order for gentlemen is taken by his wife in the order for ladies, except that a Dowager peeress of a particular title precedes the present holder of the same title.

Stepping inside Ümit and Son is like walking into one of those tat shops owned by cat ladies, except it doesn't smell like schizophrenic piss and the shelves aren't lined with moth-bitten Beanie Babies and tupperware.

"I might have thought you were him too," the lady said, "except, of course, that you don't speak Dutch".

As Nell, she sits rooted in a chair at the start, in tattered clothes that make her look like a bag lady, except for the flourish of a brightly colored head scarf.

She describes the matriarch, Violet, as the classic gangster's mother, proud of her boys: "There's nothing wrong I could say about this lovely lady except that she totally spoiled them from birth".

There were no ladies' toilets except in the basement, where the cleaners had their lockers, and her professor urged her to find a husband quickly so she wouldn't fail the exams.

Think of her as a sort of modern Lady Macbeth, except that her flaw is not overweening ambition but desire for companionship.

All Nigeria's former first ladies were invited except Maryam Babangida, the wife of Nigeria's previous military ruler.

He seemed like a typical pastor, the kind who drinks tea with old ladies on Sundays – except for the large handgun strapped to his leg.

But everyone except the ladies got around to imitating Armstrong's rakish growl.