It's quite beautiful, but nothing much will grow there except scrub.

The only problem is, with the trees gone, the topsoil gets washed away, and inside two years they can't grow anything except grass.

Nothing grew except knee-high grass that rustled softly around their legs.

Its top is perfectly flat, and the whole region is sterile, nothing growing upon it except a few stunted shrubs.

But I guess Grandpa's simply growing old: aging with nothing to show for it except a heap of consumer durables.

The genus grows worldwide in diverse habitats, except the Antarctic.

Here little or nothing grew except the short gray gamma grass.

She understood what most of our neighbors didn'tuthat I shouldn't grow dependent on anyone except myself.

Then again, maybe it was because she'd just celebrated her thirtieth birthday, and everyone seemed to be growing younger except her.

There is a Jewish proverb which states that all things grow with time, except grief.