How to Use anything but in a Sentence

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• Here, lush island hotels around the world that are anything but one-note.
  — Kathryn Romeyn, Architectural Digest, 6 Dec. 2024
• No matter how overused, sconce lighting will never feel anything but high-end.
  — Gabriele Regalbuto, Fox News, 6 Dec. 2024
• Texture While tile might have once been thought of as a cool, austere surface choice, that’s anything but true today.
  — Patricia Shannon, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Dec. 2024
• In this design, the neutral wood stains are anything but ordinary, thanks to the square paneling pattern and crisscrossed beams.
  — Macie Stump, Southern Living, 6 Dec. 2024
• Then, after Adams nails this rant of maternal sound and fury, signifying that the kids may be all right but the matriarchs of the world are anything but, Heller rewinds and resets the moment.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2024
• But as the Celtics will tell you, for the last seven-plus years, it’s been anything but.
  — Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 18 June 2024
• All of this brought a calm to a week that can sometimes be anything but.
  — Simbarashe Cha, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2024
• The smiles and nods at home when things were anything but normal.
  — Eli Cahan, The New Republic, 10 July 2023
• And while the advice may be dull, your skin will be anything but.
  — Melanie Rud, SELF, 11 Oct. 2024
• The 71-year-old is anything but a neutral-tone queen, though.
  — Kristyn Burtt, Flow Space, 11 Sep. 2024
• For most people who write for film and TV, the gigs are anything but steady.
  — Elvia Limón, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2023
• There were times when the journey was anything but smooth.
  — Rory Smith, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2023
• But No Scope makes clear that the path from here is anything but assured.
  — Addie Morfoot, Variety, 14 May 2024
• At the same time, though, the property is anything but hoity-toity.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 25 Oct. 2023
• Across the aisle, the nascent Unión por la Patria is anything but united.
  — Agustino Fontevecchia, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• Word has been out for some time now: A freeway is anything but free.
  — William Camargo, Los Angeles Times, 16 May 2023
• This week, at least, was probably anything but a blast for the founder.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 28 Apr. 2023
• That defense was anything but fun for Reading in the first half.
  — Trevor Hass, BostonGlobe.com, 13 June 2023
• But what Apfel chose to do was anything but shrink herself.
  — Margaux Anbouba, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2024
• But this wet season in the Bay Area has been anything but normal.
  — Gerry Díaz, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 May 2023
• Okay, that was cheesy, but her latest look was anything but.
  — Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 28 Oct. 2023
• But times have been anything but typical for the past three years.
  — Alicia Wallace, CNN, 12 Apr. 2023
• Shopping for coasters might not be the most thrilling, but these are anything but dull.
  — Cristian Esteban, Rolling Stone, 10 Jan. 2024
• But even if the Green Sahara is a thing of the past, the desert today is anything but desolate.
  — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 May 2023
• The former Raiders starter, 32, admitted the Big Easy has been anything but for him.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2023
• But the current styles on the market today are anything but.
  — Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2024
• The fiscal year is over — but the Biden border crisis is anything but.
  — Mark Green, National Review, 27 Oct. 2023
• Jeremy Allen White The look might be quiet luxe, but the overhaul of Lawrence’s wardrobe in the past year has been anything but shy.
  — Carol McColgin, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Mar. 2024
• And a month into his tenure, those fears have been anything but quelled.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
• The idea that the fate of the world could be in the hands of a tiny piece of crystal and Muppets that were anything but cute and cuddly disturbed me to my core.
  — Lauren Brown West-Rosenthal, Parents, 19 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 25 Dec 2024