Sentence examples for this is except from inspiring English sources

"That's what this is, except it's dance".

"I don't understand what Tess's interest in doing this is except to rewrite history.

As for The Way We Were, I have never quite known what this is, except that it is one of a handful of films - huge hits - that are simultaneously so tacky and yet so revealing that you know they contain the secret explanation of Hollywood.

It's hilarious because there is no analogy to help explain how over-the-top ridiculous this is, except by saying, "that's like being for Darth Vader and against Luke Skywalker".

She had no idea what this was, except that the pink looked like blood.

This was except for the top 10% of earners, whose wealth rose slightly.

Everything, that is, except this trial, insofar as the judge can insure it.

But this is unimportant, except perhaps to anyone intent on getting their art history pedantically straight.

This is good — except when it's very bad, as in the case of cancerous tumors.

This is uninhabited, except for scientists, is surrounded by rich fisheries and is the subject of a longstanding dispute.

Everybody knows this is crazy except the Supreme Court.