make exception
Example Sentences
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They’re just willing to make exception for certain people.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 19, 2021
“We need to protect the work of academics as set forth in Freedom of Information Acts, which laws make exception for information that should be legitimately protected, for example relating to research,” said Mr. Schnare.
From Washington Times ● May 15, 2016
They say they will take no Americans, but to our minister they said they would make exception in favor of three, so I guess the three will be John McCutcheon, Palmer and myself.
From Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis by Davis, Charles Belmont
Art can make exception in its subjects no more than science.
From Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life by Flaubert, Gustave
I do not make exception of any country, not even of America.
From The Whole Armour of God by Jowett, John Henry
