Examples of “exception” in a Sentence

noun Someone or something left out of a general rule or statement.

• Most of the class passed; she was the exception.
• The shop shuts at six every day, with Saturday as the only exception.
• Everyone agreed to share the cost, and he was the one exception.

noun A formal objection, especially on legal grounds.

• The defense entered an exception to the judge's ruling on the evidence.
• Counsel noted an exception for the record before the hearing ended.
• The lawyer took exception to how the question was phrased.

noun In computing, an unexpected error condition that interrupts normal program flow and can be caught and handled.

• The function throws an exception if the file can't be found.
• My program crashed because it did not catch the exception thrown by the database.
• You can write code to handle an exception so the app keeps running.