Sentence examples for appropriate excuse from inspiring English sources

You have to decide what form of greeting is most appropriate ("Excuse me" … "Oi" …).

Have you ever "gone to the bathroom" in order to check email or come up with a socially appropriate excuse to pull out your smartphone just so you can check your @ replies on Twitter?

I asked her what would be an appropriate excuse not to dance?

Weekes was more talkative and made the appropriate excuses for Irbe.

Appropriate excuses, however, include the fact that the game did not start until after 9 30 Eastern and lasted four hours.

Is this not the same Darryl Strawberry who virtually phoned in the first 100 games this year (with all the appropriate excuses, of course)?

A spokesperson for Tequila UK has apologised "for the offence that has been caused" by the video: "We categorically do not think it is acceptable or appropriate to normalise, excuse, tolerate or condone rape or sexual offence of any sort and we are taking this situation very seriously".

In a department or program in which a two-day written senior departmental examination is administered on those days, a senior may, with the written consent of the appropriate instructors, be excused from final examinations in as many as two courses in the major in the term in which he or she takes the departmental examination.

Urgency is appropriate but not an excuse for stupidity or brutality.

Using historically appropriate instruments does not excuse a conductor from having to achieve balances, a constant challenge for conductors of orchestras using modern instruments.

Placing a few characters in Venice seems mainly an excuse to appropriate the phrase "bridge of sighs" and endow it with a symbolic significance that is a little nebulous but seems to have something to do with the notion of an alternative life.