Sentence examples for better excuses from inspiring English sources

It's pretty amazing, actually — and again, it makes me a lot more sympathetic to those confused voters, who have much better excuses than sitting governors with presidential ambitions.

And court clerks say they do not come up with better excuses for getting out of jury duty: they are just more obnoxious about it.

But what of all those people who don't have as much money as the corporate elite and yet often have better excuses because they have to live in the real world?

Politicians have better excuses than most, being bound by commitments made in outdated manifestos and obliged to reconcile conflicting interests and withstand intrusive media scrutiny.For all their cynicism, Britons are often willing to turn a blind eye to let their politicians off, as Bagehot pretends not to know where the penguin is.

The American people don't want better excuses.

Of those 19 who failed, some had better excuses than others.

What better excuse?

And he does have a better excuse than most.

"The dog ate my homework" is a better excuse than that.

There's no better excuse for problems than having had a despot.

"Extra innings," Brad Ausmus, the special assistant, said, but he actually had a better excuse.