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How to use the word Except in a Sentence? Page #9

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This is a low risk. It appears to have a transmission vector that really should not prevent anyone from going anywhere in Snohomish County, except maybe the isolation ward at the hospital.

Washington Governor Jay Inslee

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Nobody gave us a chance to win here today except everybody in our organization, they (the Saints) brought all pressure and Kirk made a great throw. I'm proud of Kirk, blocking out the noise and coming down here and playing huge all game.

Kyle Rudolph

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

You can replace everything, except for your lives.

Matthew Doyle

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The past does not exist -- except in the brain.

Tracey Shors

added by anonymous
4 years ago

Kamala Harris was capable of being anything from president to vice president to secretary, to be a Supreme Court justice, to be an attorney general. I mean, but, you know, who controls that except the candidates themselves ?

Joe Biden

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The IG report just came out and I was just briefed on The IG report and The IG report's a disgrace what's happened with respect to the things that were done to our country, the IG report should never again happen to another president. It is incredible, far worse than I would've ever thought possible and The IG report's an embarrassment to our country, The IG report's dishonest, The IG report's everything that a lot of people thought it would be, except far worse.

Donald Trump

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I have no interest in advancing the outcome of your inquiry in any particular direction, except toward the truth.

Jackie Speier

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

God is everywhere, except where he has a delegate.

Proverb

added by anonymous
4 years ago

One way or another we'll form a progressive government and unblock the political stalemate ... We call upon all the political parties, except for those that work against coexistence and foster hatred.

Pedro Sanchez

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Back in North Carolina, I hear immigration come up, i don't really hear impeachment except for,' what the heck are you guys doing ?'.

Thom Tillis

Found on CNN
4 years ago

The story everyone wants to write is that this is all about Donald Trump. But I don't buy that. Obviously, all the Republicans won in Kentucky except for Matt Bevin. He had personal problems. So, I don't agree that this is a bellwether on what's going to happen in( 2020), i mean suburbs, we've got to worry about the suburbs. We got slaughtered in the suburbs in Texas in 2018.

John Cornyn

Found on CNN
4 years ago

( House) Speaker( Nancy) Pelosi and White House Democrats are running an unfair, unconstitutional and illegitimate' impeachment' proceeding. The Democrats' sham hearings provide zero due process to The President and are being conducted entirely in secret, except for the out-of-context parts that( White House) Chairman( Adam) Schiff determines should be selectively leaked to the press. The President can not be expected to participate in this illegitimate process.

White House

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There is no way that we can be connected except for the registration plate of the truck. Despite this, we are working very well with the British authorities.

Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borissov

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I don't feel the pressure except to the audience that's seeing what I'm making and I feel that pressure every time, and I think -- much like the chefs I learned from when I was training to play that role -- there's a certain stripe of personality that are attracted to telling stories, which is you want to do something, but the experience isn't complete until the people that eat the meal/watch the show/watch the movie, reacts to it.

Jon Favreau

Found on CNN
4 years ago

I don't know a damn thing about Naftogaz except that it exists.

Dale Perry

Found on CNN
4 years ago

We're not believers in coincidences, except for today, and it is an extremely tragic coincidence.

Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Well, we heard it tonight, a yes or no question that didn't get a yes or no answer, this is why people here in the Midwest are so frustrated with Washington in general and Capitol Hill in particular. Your signature, Senator, is to have a plan for everything. Except this.

Pete Buttigieg

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

This is why people here in the Midwest are so frustrated with Washington in general and Capitol Hill in particular. Your signature, Senator, is to have a plan for everything. Except this.

Pete Buttigieg

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

What I'm not going to let you all do is take the focus off the problem, no one -- no one -- has asserted my son did a single thing wrong. No one has asserted that I have done anything wrong except The President.

Hunter Biden

Found on CNN
4 years ago

That initial program [said] everybody except classroom teachers ... could be armed. With the recent legislation, our board approved to train classroom teachers to be able to further protect our students.

Dylan Tedders

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Turkey has no ambition in northeastern Syria except to neutralize a long-standing threat against Turkish citizens and to liberate the local population from the yoke of armed thugs.

Fahrettin Altun

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

It is legal, except for the fact that he gets a third step in every now and then when his rhythm is just off, which shows you the highlight of how difficult it is.

Monty McCutchen

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

There iszero, zero, zero, zeroevidence of any assertion being made, nobody has ever asserted that I did anything wrong except he [ President Trump ] and whats that fellows name -- Rudy Hootie.

Hunter Biden

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Not one single credible outlet has given any credibility to President Donald Trump assertion, not one single one, and so I have no comment except the President should start to be president.

Hunter Biden

Found on CNN
4 years ago

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