Sentence examples for a thin excuse from inspiring English sources
"I hope that we will not have a coup .In any event, the army's call for a six-week delay seems a thin excuse.
Perhaps because the nostalgic impulse, for Adam Sandler and his pals, was a thin excuse for random juvenilia, whereas Pegg and Wright are honest enough to concede that youth was no picnic in the first place — Peter remembers being so badly bullied that he used to hide in the toilets — and that our gift for going wrong, or astray, will never leave us.
It was a thin excuse back then, and it's about as thick as tattered onion skin now.
Her voice quivered as she used "recording an album" as a thin excuse for Desi's girlfriend about their relationship.
Criticisms of "Culture Shock" focused on the story; while the humor in the writing was praised, the plot was seen as a "thin excuse for the jokes" and the episode's primary antagonist was described by IGN's Steve Butts as "a bit of a letdown".
It's all a very thin excuse for a string of great numbers like "I Get A Kick Out Of You," "You're The Top," "Easy To Love," "Friendship," "It's De-Lovely," "All Through the Night" and the two show-stoppers "Blow, Gabriel, Blow" and of course "Anything Goes".
But that coincidence seems a pretty thin excuse for a huge international event, and the statement had no noticeable effect.It is not just that APEC has no obvious function.
The fact that it was conceived in order to respond to demand for DRM from companies that insist on DRM for their business-models, and that its deployment and use is entirely concerned with DRM, makes this a pretty thin excuse.
In Wilson's defence, her attorney argued "she felt she had a connection with Mr. Griffiths and wanted to be with him"—which seems like a pretty thin excuse for lying to someone for months.
In Wilson's defense, her attorney argued "she felt she had a connection with Mr. Griffiths and wanted to be with him"—which seems like a pretty thin excuse for lying to someone for months.
Yet he had some thin excuse.
