How to Use exception in a Sentence

exception

noun

• There will be no exceptions to this rule.
• I take strong exception to your assessment of his singing ability.
• It’s gone up pretty much the whole time with very few exceptions.
  — Andy Mills, Quartz, 16 Oct. 2024
• But as with any trend, there were plenty of exceptions.
  — Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 18 Oct. 2024
• But for now, these layoffs appear to be the exception, not the norm.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
• One exception: a Taiwanese nonna who comes in once a year during her trip to the U.S.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 13 Feb. 2023
• One exception is American National Bank, which keeps its branches open.
  — Jason Ma, Fortune, 14 Oct. 2024
• One exception, which can still deliver seven figure returns, is animation.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 16 Mar. 2023
• Through seven weeks, the West Coast teams are struggling to navigate their new conference, with one exception: Oregon.
  — Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
• So even as the country has grown more divided politically, the NFL has been something of an exception.
  — Dante Chinni, NBC News, 12 Feb. 2023
• The party-a-week structure also endures, as does the original cast — with the exception, based on the five episodes provided in advance, of Lizzy Caplan.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 16 Feb. 2023
• As early as 1861, there were five living ex-presidents, but that was the exception, rather than what Americans have come to expect in the past couple of decades.
  — USA Today, 19 Feb. 2023
• Prince is the second of the three exceptions to sign with the Chiefs.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 2 Sep. 2023
• The only exception to the law is if the mother's life is at risk.
  — Sarah Maddox, CBS News, 27 Nov. 2023
• The exception is the free throw, stuck more or less where it’s always been.
  — Robert O’Connell, WSJ, 27 Nov. 2023
• The only exception in the law is to save a mother's life.
  — The Arizona Republic, 24 Apr. 2024
• One of the exceptions to the rule was a nurse and pro-life activist, Jeanne Head, who would bring him roses.
  — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 22 Jan. 2024
• The exception is Fox, which added 0.3 points to its share to climb to 6.4 percent of TV usage.
  — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 June 2024
• The exception is one win from his third Super Bowl ring.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
• The Big Bend exception may be the next one to be eliminated.
  — Michel Bruneau, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
• Things in the past were tough for artists, perhaps even tougher than now in many ways, and those who ascended to the top were the exception.
  — Howard Murphy, Rolling Stone, 21 Aug. 2023
• That’s the look that followed her through to the latest show in Boston (with exception to a straight thigh-length wig in New York).
  — India Espy-Jones, Essence, 29 May 2024
• The ban prohibits all abortions, with the only exception being to save the life of the mother.
  — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 24 Apr. 2024
• One way to leverage the power of logging with python is to track errors and exceptions in a code.
  — Jon Stojan, USA TODAY, 5 June 2023
• The exception is the X-class since there are flares that have been recorded exceeding 10 times the power of an X-1.
  — Eric Lagatta, USA TODAY, 15 May 2024
• The one exception was in front of the audience at her family’s church.
  — Maya Georgi, Rolling Stone, 23 Feb. 2024
• Of course, there are notable exceptions amid the return-to-office push.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 3 Nov. 2023
• But there are some exceptions where cash bail is still allowed.
  — Patrick Keck, USA TODAY, 19 July 2023
• There is one group of people who might be an exception—those with very high triglycerides.
  — Sarah Garone, Health, 29 Aug. 2023
• Although most library events are inside, there have been a few exceptions in the past.
  — Beth Lipoff, Kansas City Star, 19 July 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024