Sentence examples for excuse are from inspiring English sources

More difficult to excuse are the gifts that flagrantly ignore your clear, settled and expressed wishes.

The N.F.L. considers the symposium so crucial for rookies that players who skip it without a legitimate excuse are fined.

Harder to excuse are the nostalgic members of failed Eastern European and Third World utopias who have made pilgrimages to Pyongyang to relive the good old days.

The men follow traditional matrimonial rites, whereby suitors admit their weaknesses to their prospective brides, but the foibles they excuse are ridiculous, and the farce is built on an absurd confusion of a book and a baby.

The excuse is feeble.

Either excuse is risible.

But that excuse is hollow.

Their only excuse is ignorance.

In reality, that excuse was wearing thin.

But that excuse isn'st necessary.

Rubens's sole excuse was efficiency.