verb
definition
To exclude; to specify as being an exception.
definition
To take exception, to object (to or against).
example
to except to a witness or his testimony
preposition
definition
With the exception of; but.
example
There was nothing in the cupboard except a tin of beans.
synonyms
conjunction
definition
With the exception (that); used to introduce a clause, phrase or adverb forming an exception or qualification to something previously stated.
example
I never made fun of her except teasingly.
definition
Unless; used to introduce a hypothetical case in which an exception may exist.
Examples of except in a Sentence
They won't even be together except weekends.
Everything was in good order except the boots.
Nothing else mattered except that she was alive.
There was no one else in the room except myself.
Good looking, except he uses Fran Tarkenton's barber.
Otherwise, it looked the way she left it, except that the air conditioning was off.
But he had never seen any pictures except a few small ones in a book.
She is very quick-tempered and wilful, and nobody, except her brother James, has attempted to control her.
All the costumes reeked of mothballs, except the sweaty gorilla, which needed them the most.
She couldn't tell, except that the tension in the room was increasing.
We could take two wagons, but that would mean we'd have to travel slow, and there wouldn't be any animals for riding except Bordeaux's horse.
She knew little about Bordeaux except that she loved him.
He didn't understand it, except that Bianca's touch finished what Sofi started.
The force of the strike knocked everyone off their feet and deadened the firelight, except for the torches in the corners.
I don't remember much of my time before coming to this world, except I was expelled.
I tell her everything, except the biggest thing in my life.
I don't believe in catch-and-release except if the fish is simply too small.
He was alone now, except for a soldier who was sitting naked at the other side of the fire, warming his thin yellow body.
I don't remember much about the parents except they didn't like me.
He'd had a dream last night, something he never remembered in the morning, except for this time.
But not a sound had broken the stillness since the strangers had arrived, except that of their own voices.
There was now no one in the reception room except Prince Vasili and the eldest princess, who were sitting under the portrait of Catherine the Great and talking eagerly.
In every cell of your body except your red blood cells exists a copy of your DNA.
All the unmarried ladies and even the married ones except the very oldest rose.
The highway ahead of them was clear, except for one big truck coming their way... and a car approaching the highway to their right.
They beat no one--except one another.
All the friends I loved best, except one, have remained my own to the present time.
Store fronts interspersed with vacant lots lined one side of the street while the other remained absent of any buildings except a closed gas station and a dollar store.
I don't know what I mean except I can't stop dreaming of little children, all hurt and bleeding and I don't want to see them because it hurts too much, but I can't block them out!
But, except for these fleeting memories, if, indeed, they be memories, it all seems very unreal, like a nightmare.
All is vanity, all falsehood, except that infinite sky.
The top was clean except for accessories and a few letters standing upright in a sorter.
Betsy suggested we each assign our new identities without telling each other except our spouses.
They form a union and get laws passed that no burgers can be flipped except by a union member.
Petya stood on tiptoe and pushed and pinched, but could see nothing except the people about him.
Nothing was truly resolved except possibly the hostility between them.
I didn't give them the time of day, except to confirm what you told me on the record.
He'd been alone since, except for his two adopted brothers.
There's nothing else between you and me, except you accepting it.
She is unresponsive and even impatient of caresses from any one except her mother.
Princess Mary heard his words but they had no meaning for her, except as a proof of how far away he now was from everything living.
I don't know anything except we'll be good for him; we're what he needs, badly.
I decided that there was no reason, except my deplorable ignorance of the great facts that underlie our physical existence.
Her room was made of black stone and quiet with no sounds except the crackle of fire.
Except she was suddenly hungry again, the faint, sweet scent winding through her senses.
Her hope had been crushed in every other way – except that it stirred once more at the idea there was more to him than she knew.
Except that, on his body, it was her name written in black.
Except for two or three important letters of 1901, these selections cease with the year 1900.
It had to be a dream, except that she remembered the heat of the skin beneath his shirt and tracing the scars she knew covered his body.
No one knew she was there except...