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View definitions for but

but

conjunction as in indicating contrast

conjunction as in indicating an exception

preposition as in indicating contrast

preposition as in indicating an exception

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Example Sentences

And more I cannot explain/but you, from what I did not say/will infer what I do not say.

And there is always the easy-but-true charge of Hollywood hypocrisy.

Sheets of bright-but-not-too-bright blue streaked with thin clouds.

And in those conflicts, the Predator would be all-but-useless.

And we all remember good-but-overpraised songs like If I Had a Hammer and the treacly classic Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

When he first worked her she had the old bee-but boiler, 24 feet in diameter.

Till now one with sudden hiss: "But-good Christ-just look-why, the roof's leaning—!"

Our friend with his infinite variety and flexibility, we know-but can we put him in?

Eligible single gentlemen pass and repass-but there is no invitation for to inquire within or without.

And again there came to Honoria that ache of longing for the but-half-disclosed glory and fulness of life.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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