Sentence examples for a sort of excuse from inspiring English sources

Though some people took their costumes very seriously and were eager to compete, the Halloween theme seemed to be secondary, as a sort of excuse for naturists to have fun with their nudity in a different sort of way.

Adrian Papahagi, a Romanian politician, whose movement is a part of the European Popular Party, said that, "Making fun of sacred things is popular in secularist [anti-Christian] France," as a sort of excuse for what happened at Charlie Hebdo.

For a show which is about robots fighting each other, this pretence of scientific credibility has always felt a bit over the top, a sort of excuse for license fee payers funding the whole exercise.

For a show that's about robots fighting one another, this pretense of scientific credibility has always felt a bit over the top, a sort of excuse for license fee payers funding the whole exercise.

This nugget of therapy talk is passed from one character to another in Noah Baumbach's "Greenberg," offered as an explanation, an excuse and a sort-of apology.

He refused to use the heat as any sort of excuse.

According to the journalist, Iran's right-wing media have long "used any sort of excuse to support any wrangling with the west.

So did most everyone around me, but that's not really any sort of excuse.

Not only that but back in 2009 he was given a 5% chance of survival following a ruptured spleen which might, sort of, excuse the you-only-live-once-so-lets-Snapchat-sunsets vibe of the whole thing.

Not only that but back in 2009 he was given a 5percentt chance of survival following a ruptured spleen which might, sort of, excuse the you-only-live-once-so-lets-Snapchat-sunsets vibe of the whole thing.

Like a sort of Fabian Society Jeremy Clarkson, his excuse of "It was a bloody joke, OK?" rapidly gets drowned out by people asking him if he thinks that sort of joke is funny.