Sentence examples for contrived excuses from inspiring English sources

It was the type of day when hordes of businessmen contrived excuses to play hooky.

And how was a bomb ever set in the navy yard.As usual, Mr. Hitchcock and his writers have contrived excuses.

"Our Santa has variously been on a diet or is lactose-intolerant," said a lawyer friend who has contrived excuses on more than one occasion to explain to her daughter why the cookies and milk that her daughter had left out for Santa on Christmas Eve remained untouched the next morning.

Their contrived excuses for voting against a modest gun safety proposal were nothing more than pandering to the gun lobby.

This has been done in vain, as the revolting youth refuse to be distracted by the old empty slogans and contrived excuses of those in power that suggest that chaos will dominate in their absence should they be ousted from power.

At its worse, it's a morally and narratively contrived excuse to watch a very entitled Everyman navigate a world of rich but unhappy women, including his own wife and daughter.

Now I spend my days commiserating with college friends who understand the gravity of the situation, complaining to other friends who don't and, most importantly, contriving excuses to go back to Boston.

Now, however, purchasers of e-books from Amazon can transfer virtual volumes to friends for two weeks, safe in the knowledge that any unreliable book buddies cannot contrive excuses for keeping them forever, and that the virtual pages will not be returned tatty and turned over at the corners.

But on August 19th Mr Modi contrived an excuse to scrap a meeting of foreign secretaries (ie, each country's senior career diplomat), due next week.

He develops an infatuation with a young blonde who works in a local antique store, and, after fruitlessly trying to contrive an excuse to speak to her, bumps into her entirely by accident, whereupon he summons the nerve to ask her out for coffee.

On paper, it sounds like a very contrived, mawkish and politically correct excuse for a road movie, and that title seems to be shrilly standing up for marginalised souls all across the US.