Sentence examples for would except for from inspiring English sources

It's a modest, unimposing car that would, except for its distinctive number plates, elicit little attention.

A bipartisan group that we led, the National War Powers Commission, has unanimously concluded after a year of study that the law purporting to govern the decision to engage in war — the 1973 War Powers Resolution — should be replaced by a new law that would, except for emergencies, require the president and Congressional leaders to discuss the matter before going to war.

For example, the majority opinion that only marriage, and not civil unions, would be permissible under the state Constitution was brusquely dismissive of Justice Martha B. Sosman's dissenting argument that civil unions would give gays exactly what marriage would, except for the ability to name it marriage.

No one would, except for his killer and two witnesses.

The company has beat earnings every quarter since it IPO'd, except for one quarter of mixed results due to foreign currency fluctuations that also hit many other tech companies.

You would recover, except for the scarring, in a few weeks.

Everybody was eager to know how Little Fatty Fortune would perform, except for one person.

He carped that a specific licensing requirement for tractors was "idiotic," which it absolutely would be, except for one teensy, party-spoiling detail.

That the protests have gotten out of hand is something almost nobody would contest, except for a hard core within the movement.

Players enter a hotel room, as immaculate and untouched as you would expect, except for a computer on the desk showing an interactive story about the room.

It would be, except for a small problem.