Sentence examples for an excuse right from inspiring English sources

But I don't want to make an excuse right now.

"I'm just a convenient excuse right now," Mr. Newsom said.

While the Houston family may not have embraced the film's (sometimes painful) biographical details, Whitney gives us a perfect excuse right now to revisit one of the greatest dance remixes ever and celebrate the legendary producers who transformed the diva's middling comeback hit "It's Not Right, But It's OK" into an iconic gay anthem.

"Every sentence right now starts with, 'It's hard.' We're an excuse team right now.

"We're an excuse team right now.

I will not hesitate to wear those charges of villainy for the rest of my life as a civic duty, allowing those governing few who dared not do so themselves to use me as an excuse to right these wrongs.

Because there's no excuse, right?

In retrospect, I should have ginned up an excuse to quit right there.

But as for my using Mobutu as an excuse, he was right.

• To the Editor: Paul Krugman explains that structural unemployment isn't a real problem — it's an excuse from the right to ignore a deficiency in demand.

Union activists have argued that this reasoning inflates the true cost of public pensions, and is really an excuse by the right-wing to attack workers' pension rights.But if the Detroit package goes through, then it will be shown that pension promises can be broken.