Sentence examples for excuse about from inspiring English sources

The next day at work, the husband made an excuse about his wife being tired.

"I don't want to have any excuse about the way we played.

The results show that giving an excuse about not having enough time can hurt relationships, whereas giving an excuse about not having enough money can help them.

I had to make some excuse about them being destroyed by health inspectors or something!

He makes up some excuse about needing to go put on his "old lady dress" and hangs up.

Rejections were usually in the form of an offered-up excuse about a previous engagement.

The next day she invented a transparent excuse about her mother being ill and left.

"There was some excuse about they didn't have enough money even though their Denver house had sold," Ms. Crone said.

Ms. Glover said she made an excuse about being busy with her daughters, worried that her boss would retaliate.

Ms. Frenkel jumped into the middle of the conversation with a flimsy excuse about looking for acquaintances from work.

If he arrives late, he does so with apologies -- and a ready excuse about fighting "the Republicans in Washington".