Sentence examples for alibi I from inspiring English sources

As for the cell phone, she had an alibi: "I didn't call him; he called me".

A bit shocked by Noriega's specious alibi, I asked if some of his underlings might have tried to do him an "unbidden favor" by getting rid of Spadafora.

"What Polke really makes us look at is the ultimate German alibi – 'I didn't see anything', the silence of the fathers," says Halbreich, adding that the artist was also concerned with "the silence of his own generation".

For instance, when He has to perform on crutches, Johnny offers up a narrative alibi: "I must be the only sculptor to have had a marble head fall on my foot," he says.

I can't remember the alibi I gave the executive, but certainly it wasn't anything as shameful as "I've really never seen a baseball game". But I did bow out.

"It's the alibi, 'I want to get high with no consequence,' " Mr. Zaric said, adding, "But we know, you have two or three of them, you're still going to have the hangover".

There are alibis I could cite, in terms of political news: Tony Blair and Gordon Brown were supposedly snubbed (the Palace's defense has something to do with the Most Noble Order of the Garter); the Syrian Ambassador was disinvited; but the North Korean Ambassador will be there.

I felt a little like a prosecutor building a case and trying to establish, or shake, alibis: I had a timeline for every month of the Spanish Civil War and every major character in my book, and entered events as they were documented until I built up a complete chronology.

When it comes to affirmative defenses, a defendant cannot merely say "I acted in self-defense," "I have an alibi," or "I was insane at the time".

As our session came to an end, she asked, "Can you repeat the thing you mentioned about the alibi, earlier?" I repeated, "Tradition, and culture can no longer be used as alibis to deny people basic human rights".

Billy, who had earlier refused to go, agrees to join in, to Julie's delight, as he realizes that being seen at the clambake is integral to his and Jigger's alibi ("Act I Finale").