Beside and Except

Beside

Beside preposition - Not including.
Usage example: I need four books beside this one
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Synonyms for Beside

Except and beside are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Except" instead a preposition "Beside".

Except

Except preposition - Not including.
Usage example: the store is open daily except Sundays

Beside and except are semantically related. You can use "Beside" instead a preposition "Except".

Both words in one sentence

  • Spooky Painting Which would be weird enough, except that there's a slumped corpse on the table beside you — and in the painting itself.
  • If we do not find them soon, we shall be of no use to them, except to sit down beside them and show our friendship by starving together.
  • The notion of helping, or even interacting with, any of his congregation beside the two Author Avatars and Chloe Steele, except on Sunday morning, does not seem to occur to him.
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