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Example sentences for "except where"

  • The valley of Pigeon throughout its whole length is wide and undulating, except where it cuts its way through the Smoky mountains into Tennessee.

  • It is on the treeless tops that cattle subsist and fatten, the tufts under the trees being only occasional, except where a fallen tree or cliff has made an opening for heat and light to enter.

  • Although in December, a luxuriant greenness mantled everything, except where beds of ferns had found root and then faded with the approach of autumn, or the yellow leaves of the few scattered hard wood trees lay under foot.

  • Vast tracts of idle soil extended to the horizon, except where, here and there, the yellow herbage was interrupted by little carpets of ploughed land.

  • The entire region is strewn with rocks and presents the same bleak appearance, except where, here and there, a stream descends the barren slopes and sustains a slender line of green.

  • Temperately they thread their way over the uplands or in the cañons, except where blocks of lava may have tumbled into the trough, causing the stream to wreathe and hiss.

  • Here, the books were ranged from the floor to the ceiling, with scarcely an interval, except where a few choice paintings had found space, or the bust of some ancient worthy.

  • The sun and wind had tanned his complexion, except where a rich volume of black hair upon his brow had preserved the original fairness of a high, broad forehead.

  • There is almost always a tendency to spring back a little towards the original shape, so it is well to bend a piece a little more than you wish it to remain, except where it is to be fastened so that it cannot spring back.

  • A piece of glass makes a good scraper for almost every purpose except where a flat, true surface is required.

  • Remember that a long screw-driver is always preferable to a short one, except where lack of space makes a short one necessary.

  • Though the rainfall may be slight, except where a volcanic peak rises to condense moisture, heavy dews and the thick mists of spring quicken vegetation.

  • Moreover, their relatively small area precludes effective segregation within their own borders, except where a mountainous or jungle district affords a temporary refuge for a displaced and antagonized tribe.

  • Except where it resorts to hybridization, it seeks not new homesteads, but the profits of tropical trade and the markets for European manufactures found in retarded populations.

  • The whole course of the upper Rhone, from its glacier source on the slope of Mount Furca to its confluence with the Saône at Lyon, is unfit for navigation, except where it lingers in Lake Geneva.

  • For the few preceding hours clouds had completely covered the heavens, except where a clear interval of sky, that lay along the northern horizon, promised a glowing stage for the sun's last obsequies.

  • The sea at this hour is smooth as oil, except where ruffled by fish-shoals, and shows comparatively free, today at least, from the long Atlantic roll which lashes the flat coast east of Apollonia.

  • Immediately behind the huts we came upon a broad streak cochineal-red, except where tarnished by oxygen, where it looked superficially like ochre.

  • But to practise revenge, or use violence in recovering things taken away will not be lawful, except where justice is denied.

  • It has been usual to pass over, with mutual connivance, crimes of an inferior kind, except where it has been agreed to the contrary by express treaty.

  • And this is generally true, except where it has been agreed to the contrary, that a treaty shall not be null and relinquished for trifling disgusts and miscarriages.

  • For although there can be no sin, except where there is a freedom of will, yet to be at all times free from all infirmity and sin, is more than can be expected from the condition of man.

  • But he would accept nothing, except where he espied any of his relations, when he made a point of taking them off, him or her, with himself.

  • Except where there is an ancient custom to that effect or under the provisions of the Burial or Cemetery Acts, no fee is payable to the incumbent of a parish in which a person dies who is buried in another parish.

  • In reckoning the periods prescribed by law as to non-residence, a month is a calendar month, except where it is to be made up of an aggregate of lesser periods, in which case thirty days are to be deemed a month.

  • Our course in the afternoon brought us to the main Platte river, here a handsome stream, with a uniform breadth of seventy yards, except where widened by frequent islands.

  • The day was very warm and calm, and the sky entirely clear, except where, as usual along the summits of the mountainous ridge opposite, the clouds had congregated in masses.

  • The breadth of the river is usually three-quarters of a mile, except where it is enlarged by islands.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "except where" 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:
    also tells; called spontaneous; certain time; divine gift; each tribe; except for; except from; except inasmuch; except only; except perhaps; except some; except the; except they; except what; exceptional cases; exceptions have the administrative center name; far more exceeding and eternal weight; full page; great heat; make peace; other saints; over the fire till; reindeer skin; said abruptly; under pretext; various attitudes