Sentence examples for usually anything but from inspiring English sources

And yet, they are usually anything but.

Despite Republican attempts to paint them as feckless or job-shy, they are usually anything but.

I always think how miserable it must be for actresses to be cast as "the plain one" (especially when they are usually anything but; see America Ferrera when not on the set of Ugly Betty).

-For seven years the Silent Barn, which is usually anything but silent, has served as a do-it-yourself venue, playing host to multimedia art and music shows, all organized by a small coterie of art curators, artists and musicians who pay the rent.

When pay packages are handed out to chief executives of public companies, it's usually anything but an arm's-length negotiation.

Startups developing an "Uber for X" or "Spotify for Y" are so common that it's become a cultural in-joke — and these "recipes for success" are usually anything but.

Occasionally, very small estates won't need probate (usually anything under about £10,000, but that's not an official figure, just a guide), but absolutely anything involving property will need probate, because the Land Registry insists on probate before transferring property deeds.

Due to the African Aids epidemic, nearly everyone I met also has adopted orphans - usually anything between one and three, but I did meet one village elder who had 15.

"Usually anything that crawls is not meeting the standards of life," he says.

Usually anything up to eight families lived in a two-room house, and they would sleep in the cellar.

"Of course, we are still hired for larger parties, usually anything larger than dinner for 16 to 20 guests".