How to Use anything but in a Sentence

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• And while the advice may be dull, your skin will be anything but.
  — Melanie Rud, SELF, 11 Oct. 2024
• The bar is particularly low this year, but the quality of what the film gets right is anything but.
  — David Opie, IndieWire, 7 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
• Though witches have long been associated with evil, these costume-wearing paddlers are anything but.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024
• Create an elevated space that's anything but stuffy with these decorating and design ideas.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Oct. 2024
• Christina Hall may be selling her Tennessee farmhouse amid her divorce from Josh Hall, but the process is anything but easy.
  — Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 10 Oct. 2024
• As with Uber gradually becoming a noun, verb and adjective to the masses, the bet is that with time the obscure qualities of crypto will be anything but.
  — John Tamny, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
• While the 5-0 win is somewhat routine given City’s domination in recent years, Haaland’s goal was anything but ordinary.
  — Ben Church, CNN, 24 Oct. 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
• 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
• The fiscal year is over — but the Biden border crisis is anything but.
  — Mark Green, National Review, 27 Oct. 2023
• And a month into his tenure, those fears have been anything but quelled.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
• That kind of give-and-take seems rare in national life at the moment, but Boot touches on other aspects of Reagan’s leadership that are anything but salutary.
  — Danny Heitman, The Christian Science Monitor, 24 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Nov 2024