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.
• Prince is the second of the three exceptions to sign with the Chiefs.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 2 Sep. 2023
• Before, back in Salt Lake City, Joel was the exception to the rule.
  — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 20 Apr. 2025
• But check our list here to see if your corner of the world is one of the exceptions.
  — Rasputin Todd, The Enquirer, 31 Oct. 2024
• The monthlong takeover of the Stay Cool Bar is no exception.
  — Cassandra Pintro, Vogue, 9 Feb. 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
• Of course, days like Wednesday have to be the exception.
  — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2025
• With the exception of the laugh track, which is grating on the ear five decades later.
  — Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Aug. 2022
• The only exception to this rule, the official said, would be when the videos of the rapes were shown.
  — Katie Ebner-Landy, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2025
• Zink calls are some of the best out there, and their turkey calls are no exception.
  — M.d. Johnson, Field & Stream, 7 Feb. 2023
• But for now, these layoffs appear to be the exception, not the norm.
  — Elisabeth Buchwald, USA TODAY, 9 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Supreme Court is great with the exception of the last appointment by Biden.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 5 Aug. 2022
• One of the most glaring exceptions is behind the plate.
  — Daniel R. Depetris, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Apr. 2025
• 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 Schröder trade exception is $5.8 million, so that wouldn’t work for Poeltl.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2023
• Just understand that this is the exception, not the norm.
  — Nerdwallet, cleveland, 15 Jan. 2023
• It’s gone up pretty much the whole time with very few exceptions.
  — Andy Mills, Quartz, 16 Oct. 2024
• The exception is one win from his third Super Bowl ring.
  — Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 1 Feb. 2024
• The golden arches tend to shine in bad times, though, and this was no exception.
  — Spencer Jakab, WSJ, 27 Oct. 2022
• The Big Bend exception may be the next one to be eliminated.
  — Michel Bruneau, Discover Magazine, 13 Nov. 2023
• In the House, most THC products still wouldn’t be allowed as the bill stands, with at least one exception: drinks.
  — Eleanor Dearman, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Mar. 2025
• The state of exception allowed the police to feel that the government had their backs.
  — Gisela Salim-Peyer, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
• 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
• The polls on the East Coast will close first, and results there should come most quickly, although there are exceptions to the rule.
  — The Hill Staff, The Hill, 5 Nov. 2024
• Those states still allow some exceptions after the ban kicks in.
  — Andrew Stanton, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 May 2025
• Although scientists report to have revived a 2,000-year-old date palm seed from an archaeological site in the Middle East, such cases are the exception.
  — Katarina Zimmer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2025