Sentence examples for With this excuse from inspiring English sources

"I think the state and the local officials realized just how much money they would have to shift from highway spending to transit under the agreement, and so they came up with this excuse to drop it," Mr. Woolf said.

The Guardian reports that a spokesperson for the judge ruling on the case said that the experts found there were many things wrong with this excuse, one big one being the lack of mice corpses.

Maybe you might get away with this excuse.

If you have a good friend, he/she will understand, but don't come up with this excuse too many times - otherwise, your friend's trust will start to disintegrate.

The problem with this excuse is that there are plenty of better words out there, any of which will allow you to express yourself much more eloquently and succinctly than a curse word ever will.

And those with the greatest responsibility for this — excuse me — are those in the media, with their television series and their books".

Some students skipped school with this novel excuse: They could not leave home, they said, because branches were blocking their doorways.

With this convenient excuse, the English were able to stick their American friends with the most boring century in modern literary history, but someone had to do it.

Soule can do little with this poor excuse for a catalyst and flounders a bit in her big scene, repeatedly slapping her hands on her side and gesticulating wildly to indicate emotion.

If you found a suspicious lump in your neck, you'd never put off dealing with it with the excuse: This is the loveliest neck in the world, and I don't want to tinker with it.

"He's autistic!" she replied, and again refused to switch places with him this time with the excuse.