Sentence examples for an acceptable excuse from inspiring English sources

Homelessness is not an acceptable excuse.

Coalition with the Liberal Democrats is not an acceptable excuse.

This was true and seemed to be an acceptable excuse.

"I don't offer this as an excuse because it's certainly not an acceptable excuse.

But, he added, the variation does not qualify as an acceptable excuse.

As the responses illustrate, most people don't view a spike in demand as an acceptable excuse to raise prices.

I quickly flashed on what I imagined was a completely acceptable excuse for a stranger knocking on her door shortly before midnight: "Miss Novak, I've come to bring you your TV Guide".

However, it is also a perfectly acceptable excuse to do something a little outside the box, a little risky.

It is a way of creating a socially acceptable excuse for their child being impolite and not replying when someone speaks to them.

Abdel Karim, a Palestinian journalist in Tulkarm who has reported on cases involving collaborators, said he believed the accused sometimes made up or exaggerated sexual encounters, believing this was a more acceptable excuse than saying they had collaborated simply for money.

At its simplest, the #10YearChallenge is a socially acceptable excuse to post your most flattering selfies as evidence of how much hotter you've grown with age (or not).