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Example sentences for: but

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Sobieski was elected king of Poland, but his attentions to battles against the Turks at the expense of domestic affairs did not bode well for him and Poland.
But without the US freeish market health system, there would be far less effective treatments to give people in the first place.
The porn shops are all but gone, nightclubs find it nearly impossible to function after getting busted all the time, and now he's stopping the rent check to the biggest cultural institution in Brooklyn.
Mark Twain parodies this custom in the opening paragraph of Huck Finn , when he has Huck assure the reader that The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was true, even though written by this other fellow, Mark Twain: "There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth."
Last week, it notes, Secretary of Defense William Cohen urged Israel to refrain from retaliating, but Sunday he was quoted as granting Israel the right of self-defense.