apart from

Idioms and Phrases

Also, aside from . Besides, except for. For example, Apart from jogging occasionally in the park, she gets no exercise , or Aside from Sunday dinner with his parents they have not gone out for months . The first term dates from the early 1600s, the variant from the early 1800s.

Example Sentences

The number of suspensions and exclusions in England’s state schools has been rising in recent years - apart from a dip during the pandemic when most children were educated at home - reaching their highest levels since 2006.

From BBC

Unfortunately, as Barnard would lament in 1839, that law was in practice a “dead letter,” with about two-thirds of children in mill towns left utterly without any education apart from their long hours of drudgery.

From Slate

"We got elected in July and of course nothing had been done, nothing for 18 months apart from warm words."

From BBC

"Everybody was being sick, apart from one man who kept calmly coming up the bar and ordering large whiskies."

From BBC

Yet it was a tricky line to walk, and, in hindsight, perhaps even naive to believe the attraction could stand apart from a film that has long been out of circulation.

From Los Angeles Times

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