make exception

Example Sentences

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They’re just willing to make exception for certain people.

From Washington Post • Nov. 19, 2021

“We need to protect the work of academics as set forth in Freedom of Information Acts, which laws make exception for information that should be legitimately protected, for example relating to research,” said Mr. Schnare.

From Washington Times • May 15, 2016

I make exception of the few homes on your planet where the parents are in spiritual growth, but these homes are not ideal—just a beginning of Idealism.

From The Planet Mars and Its Inhabitants, a psychic revelation by Kennon, J. L.

Fear I naturally look for—unless, of all men alive, I am forced to make exception when I come to Robert Clive.

From Browning's England A Study in English Influences in Browning by Clarke, Helen Archibald

They say they will take no Americans, but to our minister they said they would make exception in favor of three, so I guess the three will be John McCutcheon, Palmer and myself.

From Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis by Davis, Charles Belmont