Sentence examples for bizarre excuse from inspiring English sources

To begin with, there was the bizarre excuse that he should be freed on "compassionate grounds".

That perhaps illuminates the slightly cryptic comments Sadaane made after today's game, although it does not explain the frankly bizarre excuse that he had not expected Angolan temperatures to hit the high 30s.

We didn't understand the magnitude of the event we were playing in," claimed Mexico coach Miguel Herrera, a slightly bizarre excuse given the 43 previous stagings of the world-renowned tournament.

If educators truly wish to stem the tide of plagiarism, they must stop concocting such bizarre excuses and start holding students responsible for their actions.

Harrison made some bizarre excuses later, all delivered with the same evangelical zeal and overpowering self-delusion that he brought to his many pronouncements about shocking the world in the weeks before the event.

Expect the employee to explain away his declining productivity with bizarre excuses or an endless string of rationalizations that come down to one thing: I'm not responsible.

In case after case, officials and staff present sometimes bizarre excuses for what are clearly systemic abuses.

Signs you're being lied to include: Not keeping dates with you and making up bizarre excuses.

In Mother's Milk, Robert's "memory" of being born was sufficiently bizarre to excuse it from earthly criteria, but here it jars when six-year-old Thomas is familiar with the word "ember" or asks about souls.

For example, if you're addressing teachers, you might make a humorous reference to students' most bizarre homework excuses.

She then followed up the bizarre, since-deleted excuse with another apology to former Obama advisor Valerie Jarrett, who on Tuesday she called the baby of "Muslim brotherhood & planet of the apes".