How to Use make an exception in a Sentence

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  • The defense is asking the court for more time to decide, or to make an exception to that rule.
    — Sasha Pezenik, ABC News, 11 June 2023
  • Woods will make an exception and use a cart this week at the PNC Championship.
    — Adam Schupak, USA TODAY, 18 Dec. 2021
  • But voters may make an exception for one that has so much on its mind and struck such a nerve in the culture.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Democrats said the Legislature should not make an exception to the law to help DeSantis.
    — Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Democrats said the Legislature should not make an exception to the law to help DeSantis.
    — Jim Saunders, Orlando Sentinel, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Others, such as New York, make an exception for those workers.
    — Binghui Huang, The Indianapolis Star, 14 Oct. 2020
  • The Colemans never let their daughter go out on a school night, but decided to make an exception.
    — Justin Baxley, ajc, 3 July 2021
  • The Kings also have a similar list at the Golden 1 Center but make an exception for cowbells at Kings games.
    — Jaylon Thompson, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Carter said the city should make an exception for Scott, who represents Baltimore’s best.
    — Hallie Miller, baltimoresun.com, 24 Dec. 2020
  • In Washington’s case though, Coburn felt compelled to make an exception.
    — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Lyndon Johnson had to beg him to make an exception and send a detail to Jackson, Mississippi, to watch over King for a few days in the summer of 1964.
    — Margaret Talbot, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022
  • The airline also refused to make an exception for Wetherell, according to the complaint.
    — Muri Assunção, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Authorities would have to make an exception to allow the country’s largest bank to get even bigger.
    — Hannah Levitt, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Authorities would have to make an exception to allow the country’s largest bank to get even bigger.
    — Hannah Levitt, Fortune, 30 Apr. 2023
  • Walensky said that the CDC would make an exception for packed outdoor stadiums and concerts.
    — Aidin Vaziri, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Darwitz is disappointed that the NCAA didn't make an exception to its thresholds of teams playing this winter.
    — Randy Johnson, Star Tribune, 12 Feb. 2021
  • Cohen, Donley and Rebouché argue that pro-access states could make an exception for providers of telemedicine abortions.
    — Emily Bazelon, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2022
  • Advertisement The city attorney’s office said during the hearing that the kiosk deal could prompt challenges to San Diego’s sign laws, because the council had to make an exception to those laws to approve the kiosks.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2023
  • Advertisement The city attorney’s office said during the hearing that the kiosk deal could prompt challenges to San Diego’s sign laws, because the council had to make an exception to those laws to approve the kiosks.
    — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 June 2023
  • The rising opposition in India has already pushed Google to make an exception for the country, and the policy will come into effect here in April 2022.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 12 Oct. 2020
  • But the producers did once make an exception for Bernadette Yao, whose arm movements had become instantly iconic.
    — L. Wayne Hicks, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2022
  • Typically, Sunday is about a different kind of football in the U.S., but, this week, American sports fans just might make an exception.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 18 Dec. 2022
  • The firm lobbied the state for an exception to the Florida rule that says only Native American tribes can operate casinos, but the state wouldn’t make an exception.
    — Deborah Acosta, WSJ, 29 Nov. 2022
  • But Grijalva has spent weeks petitioning the government to make an exception for his Olympic debut.
    — Sophie Lewis, CBS News, 27 July 2021
  • Each school said the graduates were violating a school policy and refused to make an exception even as their families watched from the audience.
    — Nicquel Terry Ellis and Alisha Ebrahimji, CNN, 10 June 2021
  • But if regulators make an exception for just one more bank, that would mean rescuing every teetering bank.
    — David Goldman, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Biden’s only change to the Title 42 policy has been to make an exception for unaccompanied minors.
    — Gilbert Garcia, San Antonio Express-News, 2 July 2021
  • Miss Manners does not make an exception for moves within a company — or for an inattentive hiring manager who foolishly promised to relieve you of the burden.
    — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2021
  • The tacit ambiguity has fueled speculation that the Chinese government has bent its own rules to make an exception for Gu to hold two passports -- irking some in China.
    — Nectar Gan, CNN, 29 Apr. 2022
  • These headline-making events violated CNN guidelines, but the network decided to make an exception.
    — Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2022

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