'cept
Americanpreposition
Example Sentences
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“Ah dunno, ’cept yuh never mentioned it befo’, ” Georgia replies.
From New York Times • Mar. 7, 2023
"Nobody's gonna beat Liston 'cept old age," said Joe Louis.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Well, I don’t think he’d stick to roads,” Judd says, “Not a dog as shy as him. Shy as a field mouse, ’cept when he’s around rabbits.
From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
“Sheesh, your daddy is the stickenist pa I ever heard of. Seems like you can’t do nothin’ fun, Hiram, ’cept fish and go out to work on your grandaddy’s fields.
From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe
My eyeballs go back and forth twixt theirs but they’re not letting nothing go in their Noise ’cept general worry.
From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness
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