As before, no one was visible except our friends and their escorts until the first bell sounded.

Nobody wants to be real close to you, except your family and your friends.

All the girls have a crush on him, except Zooey and her friends.

Besides very few people except my friends will know.

He was unable to concentrate on anything except his disappearing friends.

She glanced around to make sure that no one else was about except her immediate friends.

He'd never punched anyone before, except his friends, and that was only in fun.

He is treated like an outcast by everyone except Lizzie and her friends.

I doubt anybody been here in the last hundred years, though, except our poor friends.

"I try to avoid other people except my absolutely closest friends."