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Example sentences for "anything except"

  • I have demonstrated the fact that neither I nor one in a hundred of those charming devotees to art could ever earn a living by art, or do anything except to add to the mediocrity of the amazing art product of this free country.

  • Alec, who had never wanted to be anything except a farmer, liked the heavy-footed draft horses best.

  • Two of the workers, Cindy saw, were the carefree young men who had camped close to the Simpson wagon on the border and had taken little interest in anything except fun.

  • The young men seemed little interested in anything except having a good time.

  • I don't think there's anything except a smell of mice in the dining-room that we don't know how to get rid of.

  • He therefore confined himself to discussing with Dumetrius whether Monticellis would come again now that it was the fashion for a picture to be anything except a picture; and the future of Johns, with a side-slip into Buxton Knights.

  • Although of anything except a poetical turn of mind, Luke thought, as he always did when he saw Andy at a distance, of a birch sapling that has shot far into the air without developing a trunk that is capable of supporting it.

  • Intelligent enough to work with others when the situation demands it, they are too highly individualized to look to any one leader and too smart ever completely to trust their own fate to anything except themselves.

  • Turning his swamp into a muskrat farm had seemed like a grand dream, but maybe it could never be anything except a dream.

  • The pair had become friends during the voyage, but, after so many days at sea, neither Ali nor Mimico wanted to do anything except look at some land.

  • Ali reflected curiously that some of the more devout were dead, while some who seemed to regard this holy journey in anything except a pious light were very much alive.

  • You of the Bolsheviki can not come among us dripping with human blood, showing us your fangs, and expect from us anything except a fusillade.

  • All day long he hasn't done much of anything except ask me if I think you'll get Old Yellowfoot.

  • He was too tired to notice the room or anything except that he was in bed.

  • But even though it was abominable to take a trout on anything except a dry fly, he couldn't have done otherwise.

  • Had he made of it anything except an instrument for idle caprice and indolent passions to play upon?

  • All over paint and powder, and with too small a foot and too trim a figger to be anything except wicked.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anything except" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    annual meeting; anything but; anything could; anything else; anything except; anything for; anything from; anything good; anything happens; anything more; anything should; anything that; anything wrong; anything you; completely destroyed; could paint; creative power; great question; just going; large families; moment and then said; only know; public confidence; small group; thin syrup; year agone