All of the people you worked with, except your son, were killed.

The stock exchange works every day of the week, except weekends and financial holidays.

It won't work except the first time you open the box.

Nothing worked any longer except the mechanisms of death.

Everything seemed to be working except my mind, which couldn't grasp the enormity of what I'd done.

"If this plan doesn't work, then of course nothing else is likely to work except foreign military intervention," he said.

There is no conceivable law by which a man can be forced to work on any terms except those he chooses to set.

Everything in the Straton seemed to be working except the voice radios.

Most chefs work 14 hours every day except Sunday.

The sad fact is that nothing works except the collection of taxes.