How to use the word “except for”

How to use in-sentence of “except for”:

+ Two months ago I pretty much became inactive, because I was busy planning to move across the province, and last month I had my admin tools removed because I was actually moving and didn’t have internet, except for my smartphone.

+ At Yale he produced brilliant theoretical research, but could not teach or explain ideas to students. He was also unable to direct the research of graduate students, except for the occasional outstanding one.

+ The game was liked, except for its divisive ending.

+ All state government offices, community colleges, and libraries are closed, except for K-12 schools.

+ Today, most cheese-producing countries make a cheese called “Emmental cheese” – These cheeses often have little in common with the original though, except for the holes in the cheese.

How to use the word except for
How to use the word except for

Example sentences of “except for”:

+ He has been with the franchise since they moved to Indianapolis from Baltimore except for the 1992-1994 seasons.

+ Members of Congress cannot be arrested, except for certain crimes, during a session of Congress or going to or returning from a session.
+ By default, the template displays text in the form "yyyy–yy"; except for the 1999–2000 season, which is in the form "yyyy–yyyy" to comply with WP:YEAR: "A closing CE/AD year is normally written with two digits.

+ He has been with the franchise since they moved to Indianapolis from Baltimore except for the 1992-1994 seasons.

+ Members of Congress cannot be arrested, except for certain crimes, during a session of Congress or going to or returning from a session.

+ By default, the template displays text in the form “yyyy–yy”; except for the 1999–2000 season, which is in the form “yyyy–yyyy” to comply with WP:YEAR: “A closing CE/AD year is normally written with two digits.

+ Athletes from this country have been in every Summer Olympic Games since then, except for the 1976 Games.

+ Moreover, it is more than four kilometers wide with  the highest altitude except for artificial lakes.

+ Texas Tech’s athletics teams are called the Red Raiders, except for the women’s basketball team, which is called the Lady Raiders.

+ They have won more things than any Italian club except for Juventus.

+ I doubt except for bilogists who use probably use it as a model organism, no one is really interested in lancelets.

+ The 1938 hurricane season was a normal season except for one thing.

+ The islands have no people in them, except for a small Honduran navy garrison.

+ Virginia saw mainly heavy snow except for the South and the coastline.

+ Muharram is held to be the most sacred of all the months, except for Ramadan.

+ The territory of the municipality, except for the Augustinian monastery, belonged to the Bishop of Constance.

More in-sentence examples of “except for”:

+ The Chenopodioideae is a subfamily of flowering plants are family Amaranthaceae, formerly treated as a distinct family Chenopodiaceae and comprising all of the genera formerly included in this family except for those transferred to the subfamilies Salicornioideae and Salsoloideae.

+ Up to this day, most nuclear incidents did not cause many deaths, except for the Chernobyl accidentChernobyl disaster and Windscale fire.

+ There has not been much economic development, except for tourism.

+ Usually, groups traveled almost all day, except for an hour around noon for lunch.

+ Arthur Waley made a free translation of the work, except for one chapter.

+ Team Rocket does not show up much in the anime except for the duo that works for Team Rocket, Jessie and James.

+ There are a lot of schools in Roeselare of each level except for an university.

+ Most of the electorate is almost uninhabited except for small Aboriginal communities.

+ Next, they make a hole in the body to remove all the Organ organs except for the heart.

+ It became the capital of Portuguese Guinea in 1942, and has been the capital since independence was declared, except for a short time in 1973 and 1974 when the capital was at Boe.

+ Accordingly, any bill may originate in either House of Congress, except for a revenue bill, which may originate only in the House of Representatives.

+ The other antimony halides all react with water except for antimony trifluoride.

+ He showed that the two fossils were almost identical, except for the front limbs and feathers of “Archaeopteryx”.

+ Most tropical cyclone agencies start naming cyclonic storms at this level, except for the Philippines which have their own way of naming cyclones.

+ They traveled in groups with a size of 700-1,600 people, all led by conductors chosen by John Ross, except for those, who signed the Treaty of New Enchota.

+ The company was acquired in 1990, following which every North American outlet was renamed Dunkin’ Donuts except for fewer than six by the start of 2010.

+ VHS VCRs, as well as blank tapes and pre-recorded VHS movies, are no longer made, except for a few independent films.

+ However, none of them were successful, except for Neo Geo from SNK.

+ All of these members were in the group the entire time, they were together, except for McKernan who died in 1973.

+ In the knockout phase, teams play against each other over two legs on a home-and-away basis, except for the one-match final.

+ On the other hand, world trade is conducted using the metric system and except for the US, the world uses the metric system for almost all purposes.

+ Bad Cop’s forces attack and capture all the Master Builders except for Emmet, Wyldstyle, Vitruvius, Batman, Princess Unikitty, and a “1980-something space guy” named Benny.

+ In many species they do not, except for the sex organs.

+ It walked on two legs and looked slightly like an ostrich, except for its long tail.

+ They won every challenge, except for three reward challenges, and eventually there was only one Ulong member left.

+ When they are on the Mountain, they have “Upper” in front the their names, except for Garth Street which should be Upper Dundurn Street.

+ All lessons, except for special language classes, are held in English.

+ It is also carbon free except for production and transportation, otherwise it is non-polluting.

+ That is all the ornithopods except for the small, fast-running “Hypsilophodon”.

+ The commercial is silent except for Carter’s voice and accompanying music.

+ For the section Bob is changing it shows Bob’s changes and Alice’s possible changes, except for sections where Bob and Alice have both made the same change.

+ The list is the same as the 2002 list except for Ike and Laura, because Isidore and Lili were bad storms in 2002, and their names were retired.

+ This is the same list used for the 1979 season, except for the added names.

+ From 2005, he completely played as first goalkeeper except for 2006 for injury.

+ However, in the main part of the experiment, all except for one participant were confederates.

+ It is found everywhere except for North America.

+ If Team Cena lost, every member of Team Cena except for Cena would have been fired.

+ The general setup of each “round” is the same, except for some hard-coded parameters and a part of the cipher key, called a subkey.

+ Once you finish the final part of the trial, which is putting the correct pictures onto a comic, then everyone will vote except for the player.

+ There is no advertising except for a small sign outside the abbey.

+ All wore shirts possible, except for the number 1, the goalkeeper.

+ All countries having Arabic as an official language are among the members of the League, except for Israel, Eritrea and Chad which are not members.

+ Compounds that are enantiomers to each other have the same physical properties, except for the direction in which they rotate polarized light and how they interact with different optical isomers of other compounds.

+ This series currently consists of six seasons: Every season each consists of 27 episodes although a special episode is sometimes added as a transition from two seasons to another, except for the third season which only has 26 episodes and for the fourth season which only has 14 episodes and for the fifth and sixth season which only has 13 episodes.

+ OK, a note to all about my inactivity: I have edited every day this month except for the 14th.

+ These two songs were never recorded except for the bootleg that has been circulating, although “Life Without You” was almost recorded instead of “Cassiopeia”.

+ By the 1840s, except for a few Seminole Indians living in Florida, there were no Native Americans left in the American South.

+ Most amphibians have four limbs, except for caecilians.

+ However, most of them come and go through the seasons, except for the Nile River and Niger River.

+ The Chenopodioideae is a subfamily of flowering plants are family Amaranthaceae, formerly treated as a distinct family Chenopodiaceae and comprising all of the genera formerly included in this family except for those transferred to the subfamilies Salicornioideae and Salsoloideae.

+ Up to this day, most nuclear incidents did not cause many deaths, except for the Chernobyl accidentChernobyl disaster and Windscale fire.
+ There has not been much economic development, except for tourism.

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