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305 example sentences for EXCEPTION, such as:

1. There is nothing permanent except change.
2. The guides are unpaid except for basic expenses.
3. Let us make an exception in favor of Paris, nevertheless.
4. The paintings have no intrinsic value except as curiosities.
5. A friend is a gift, whose worth cannot be measured except by heart.

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 Meanings and Examples of EXCEPTION
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exception
 n.  instance that does not conform to a rule
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  To be a saint is the exception; to be an upright man is the rule.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
2  With that exception, his ordinary diet consisted only of vegetables boiled in water, and oil soup.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—MONSEIGNEUR BIENVENU MADE HIS CASSOCKS LAST TOO...
3  All the rooms in the house, without exception, those on the ground floor as well as those on the first floor, were white-washed, which is a fashion in barracks and hospitals.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM
4  With this exception, he was in all things just, true, equitable, intelligent, humble and dignified, beneficent and kindly, which is only another sort of benevolence.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A RESTRICTION
5  He fulfilled his duties as mayor; but, with that exception, he lived in solitude.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—SUMS DEPOSITED WITH LAFFITTE
6  With the exception of a few incidents this attack succeeded Papelotte was taken; La Haie-Sainte was carried.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—THE QUID OBSCURUM OF BATTLES
7  With the exception of the feeble reserve echelonned behind the ambulance established at the farm of Mont-Saint-Jean, and of Vivian's and Vandeleur's brigades, which flanked the left wing, Wellington had no cavalry left.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
8  It was France who committed this monstrous violence; by foul means, for, with the exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul means.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
9  With the exception of the two or three streets, of which we shall presently speak, all was wall and solitude there.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER III—TO WIT, THE PLAN OF PARIS IN 1727
10  The pupils conformed, with the exception of the austerities, to all the practices of the convent.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER III—AUSTERITIES
11  This meagre fare, which was reserved for the pupils alone, was, nevertheless, an exception.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER V—DISTRACTIONS
12  With the exception of the archbishop and the gardener, no man entered the convent, as we have already said.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII—SOME SILHOUETTES OF THIS DARKNESS
13  The Vaugirard cemetery formed an exception among the cemeteries of Paris.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER V—IT IS NOT NECESSARY TO BE DRUNK IN ORDER TO BE ...
14  Let us make an exception in favor of Paris, nevertheless.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY
15  In a relative measure, and in spite of the souvenir which we have just recalled, the exception is just.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—A BIT OF HISTORY
Example Sentence: (95 in 7 pages)
16  Single parents seem to be the norm rather than the exception nowadays.
17  While some world stock and commodity markets show signs of calming down, China is usually an exception.
18  Every denomination is experiencing tension, and Southern Baptists are no exception.
19  As of December first, all cafes, bars and restaurants will be obliged to provide non-smoking areas with the exception of traditional cafes and late-night clubs.
20  Ferndean then remained uninhabited and unfurnished, with the exception of some two or three rooms fitted up for the accommodation.
21  Rawls's representative agent is portrayed as a disembodied party devoid of any substantive human characteristics except rationality.
22  Envy is blind and kows nothing except how to depreciate the excellence of others.
23  The guides are unpaid except for basic expenses.
24  No one can degrade us except ourselves; that if we are worthy, no influence can defeat us.
25  The paintings have no intrinsic value except as curiosities.
26  No one can open mail except the person to whom it has been addressed.
27  A friend is a gift, whose worth cannot be measured except by heart.
28  The retired worker usually waters his garden every day except on rainy days.
29  Each person's genetic code is unique except in the case of identical twins.
30  There is nothing permanent except change.