Sentence examples for were unless from inspiring English sources
conjunction
Except on a specified condition; if not.
- I'm leaving unless I get a pay rise (AmE: raise).
"A designer alone is not enough to get us back where we were, unless I had Tom Ford or Phoebe Philo," he said.
He wrote to deadline "when it wasn't going to be possible to invite people round for dinner, as it were, unless I earned some money".
Still, however temporary his absence, it will leave the Yankees more short-handed than they were, unless they make a roster move to bring up a backup infielder.
I think I'm somewhere in the middle: I don't consult an instruction manual (or Google, as it were) unless I run into a serious situation.
Furthermore, evil would be a problem philosophically no matter how little of it there were, unless we could see justification for it (Hume 1779, 111).
Back when I was a kid, we never saw who our rock and roll idols were unless they put themselves on the album cover.
That is unless you're Chelsea.
Friendly, that is, unless you're Mr. Baldwin.
That is, unless bigger news happened.
That is, unless he escapes again.
That is, unless Mr Gul bows out.
