Honestly, it bothers me because I can't think of him as anything but 'Mary Jane.
Then they never think of anything but a place to run," she finished laughingly, as she began to arrange on a stand the quantity of little white boxes waiting for her.
The rug isn't anything but darns, nor the tablecloth, either--except patches.
I told Mr. Snowdon that I could never beanything but a friend to Jane.
You cannot use words of sympathy which would be anything but formal, and you prefer to let me understand that.
Mr Arabin declared that he should look on such tenets on the part of the parishioners as anything but orthodox.
He was, however, anything but skilful in his deceit, and she saw through it.
But he was quite decided about Mr Harding; and as Mr Slope did not wish to have both the prelate and the prelatess against him, he did not at present see that he could do anything but yield.
When they arose to speak if they failed to be humorous they utterly failed, and they rarely strove to be anything but humorous.
This was as much as the young detective could expect, and having expressed his thanks, he took his leave in anything but a discontented frame of mind.
It was a temporary flash, however, and quickly veiled, and the tone in which this Dunn now spoke was anything but an encouraging one.
Bibleback was worse off than I was; he couldn't do anything but look at the pictures on the wall.
My outfit received the news in anything but a cheerful mood.
You'll meet darkies over there that can't speak a word of anything but French.
No; I am not fit to be anything but an ordinary married woman, with an Alick to take care of me; but I am glad some people can be what I meant to be.
Morning light was streaming into the room when one of these swoons had fallen on her, and no means of restoration availed to bring her back to anything but a gasping condition, in which she lay supported in Rachel's arms.
Martie never saw her in anything but a baggy, spotted black house-dress, but there were great gatherings and feasts occasionally downstairs, and then presumably the adored old head of the family was more suitably clad.
I've not seen John--I tell you I never thought of him as anything but Adele's husband!
I never thought of anything but that we belonged to each other--I've thought of it all the time!
He, anything but a guide, a support, and a friend to me!
He hadn't on anything but a shirt, and he was very frowzy-headed.
Pap always said it warn't no harm to borrow things if you was meaning to pay them back some time; but the widow said it warn't anything but a soft name for stealing, and no decent body would do it.
It warn't anything but a Sunday-school picnic, and only a primer-class at that.
It never occurred to him that he could do anything but remain at his post and suffer in body and soul and mind, and not complain.
I have never been able to think of work as anything but a way to get money, and it wasn't right, not for a man like me, with the feelings I was born with.
Waste of time and money--she would never be anything but an amateur!
At her timid ring the door was opened by a broad-cheeked girl, enticingly compact in apron and black frock, whose bright color, thick lips, and rogue eyes came of anything but London.
Especially when--like your mother and myself, though I shall never think of her as anything but young--their hearts are altogether set on him to whom they must confess.
Nor was Betty's method of breathing while asleep conducive to the slumber of anything but babies.
Then silent, motionless, a yard apart, they looked fiercely at each other, their hearts stiff and sore, and in their brains no glimmer of perception of anything but tragedy.
Polly Ann," I said, "did I ever do anything butgood to you?
The effect of this was to make me anything but self-complacent.
I didn't doanything but get a tourniquet on his leg and have him put on the train.
Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them; besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight.
Have the Catholic priests ever looked upon woman as anything but a sex commodity?
He knows that quantity and not quality is the material for the political grinding mill, and, unless he is a sentimental reformer or an old fossil, he knows that politics can never be anything but a swamp.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "anything but" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
