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For EXCEPT, below is one of 305 sentences:
He's that proud he don't even like his oldest friends to go there; and I don't know as any do, any more, except myself and the doctor.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXCEPT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
except
   prep: not including
   conj: apart from; but; unless
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  He's that proud he don't even like his oldest friends to go there; and I don't know as any do, any more, except myself and the doctor.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IX
2  It was time for Gerald's return and, if she expected to see him alone, there was nothing for her to do except meet him where the driveway entered the road.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  But the next time came and went, and the result was nothing--nothing except that the fever possessing her rose higher and hotter.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  There's nobody in the County sits a horse better than Ashley," said Scarlett, furious at the slur of effeminacy flung on Ashley, "nobody except maybe his father.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
5  Nor had she ever seen her sit down without a bit of needlework in her hands, except at mealtime, while attending the sick or while working at the bookkeeping of the plantation.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  For this and other reasons, Gerald's family was not inclined to view the fatal outcome of this quarrel as anything very serious, except for the fact that it was charged with serious consequences.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
7  He knew no poetry save that of Moore and no music except the songs of Ireland that had come down through the years.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
8  Pork brought forth his favorite ruffled shirt, so inexpertly mended by the chambermaid as to be unwearable by anyone except his valet.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
9  Many had moved for no reason at all, except that the restless blood of pioneering fathers still quickened in their veins.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
10  She had the easily stirred passions of her Irish father and nothing except the thinnest veneer of her mother's unselfish and forbearing nature.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  There was no family of any standing into which he could marry, no people with whom he could associate except the Slatterys and riffraff like them.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
12  The whole family knew that Carreen's thirteen-year-old heart was set upon Brent Tarleton, who never gave her a thought except as Scarlett's baby sister.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
13  She's never had another beau except him.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
14  Everyone was smoldering, and it would have been a positive triumph for Scarlett, except for Ashley.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
15  All the ladies except Mrs. Tarleton moved out of the back yard, leaving the shade of oaks and arbor to the men.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence: (95 in 7 pages)
16  The exam went quite well, except at the end when I tripped up on the final question.
17  No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.
18  Everybody except me looks down upon him.
19  I have everything what I want except you.
20  The benches were empty except for a single solitary figure.
21  Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
22  The Marshall Plan did not include Britain, except peripherally.
23  There is nothing to indicate the building's past, except the fireplace.
24  The matter can't be discussed except at a personal interview.
25  Mr Muite refused to talk to them except in the company of his legal colleagues, whereupon the police officers departed.
26  I have no one to thank for all my suffering except myself.
27  The office is open every day except Sundays.
28  The restaurant is open every day except Monday.
29  I am pretty useless at everything except music.
30  We've all paid our fair share except Portia, who's never got any money.