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excepting

adjective as in barring

noun as in exception

preposition as in exclusive of

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Example Sentences

The pieces are near-identical, excepting the signature buttons on the Chanel suit and a few small tailoring details.

But then, excepting Strike and his plucky assistant, Robin, almost no one in this story is particularly nice.

I saw houses, empty and silent, with neither light nor life about any of them excepting one.

The room was built of rose-coloured marble excepting the floor, which was tessellated in rose and grey.

Excepting a relatively small number of children, every illegal immigrant in the U.S. entered knowing they were breaking the law.

He was the strangest-looking creature Davy had ever seen, not even excepting the Goblin.

They were quite different excepting only in the fact that they also had done marvels of fighting and endurance.

We modestly reminded her that we always did go, excepting of course on this particular Sunday.

In her husband's loyalty (always excepting his feeling towards Miss Ashton) she rested fully assured.

Some minutes passed in silence, Norman lying still, excepting a nervous trembling that agitated his whole frame.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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