Sentence examples for an odd excuse from inspiring English sources

This seemed an odd excuse, for we soon discovered that none of the local cafes served anything resembling breakfast.

Pure Gym has pulled its stock market float blaming "this period of market volatility", an odd excuse given share prices appear to be in rude health.

"Haste" is an odd excuse, given that there was time to doctor the photo, especially since several days were apparently not enough time for Di Tzeitung to figure out the "who they are" — Tomason is referred to in the non-apology as "another female participant".

Old age is an odd excuse, given that Mr Rafsanjani chairs Iran's constitutional watchdog, the Expediency Council, and that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the Islamic Republic's founder, ruled the country with an unwavering hand until he was 88.Kayhan, a hard-line newspaper that echoes the supreme leader and Iran's intelligence services, offered a more realistic explanation.

That's an odd excuse, given that the communication has been headline news for many NSA stories.

From Stratford, east London, Owen's reasoning might at first seem like an odd excuse.

"You can make the odd excuse but for me, he had them fairly stone cold on the turn coming into the straight.

If this is unexplained behavior or he is repelling you with odd excuses, you may have a hint.

"The odd excuses made about not having a representative in Togo are unacceptable, India could have found ways of getting the sailors home much earlier," the Hindustan Times says.

If they descend from Olympian detachment, they hunt for odd excuses like the one Thomas Mann used to explain the origins of "The Magic Mountain": it's due, he wrote, to "the healthy and sympathetic attitude of the American mind toward the personal, the anecdotal and the intimately human".

Recall if she makes up odd excuses just to talk to you.