Sentence examples similar to excuse ask from inspiring English sources

"Do you ever get the sense that these 'grimaces' from Murray are just an excuse?" asks George Solomon.

The Walking Ninja: Take the note into your hand and ask the teacher if you can be excused (ask if you can go to the bathroom or ask if you can sharpen your pencil).

She didn't believe my excuses, asked me what was wrong, but I never said anything.

Here's why: The topic of astronauts' bodily functions provides as good an excuse to ask rude questions as you'll find on this planet or any other.

A slow news day would not become an excuse to ask the mayor about everything from breast-feeding to child custody.

Although she invited Mr. Muhammad and Mr. Malvo to stay with her for the night, Ms. Anderson said she had made an excuse to ask them to leave the next day.

But he did not respond with a sigh, and he did not lapse into a lecture, and he did not even seize this dastardly claim of Mr. Bush's as an excuse to ask for more speaking time.

"By using the topic of traveling as an overarching theme, it gave us an amazing excuse to ask high-profile artists or cultural icons questions that avoid the obligatory 'What do you do?' and 'How did you get started?' and instead ask about different aspects of their lives that we personally find more interesting," says Kominek.

This week's events give the various NEO-detection efforts involving NASA, the Japanese Space Agency and several universities around the world a good excuse to ask for more money to expand their search.Other researchers, meanwhile, have been pondering what to do if an asteroid is detected that is indeed on a collision course with Earth.

This release gives me the perfect excuse to ask the big question: is Flock fast becoming immensely irrelevant?

Cool Cousin gives them excuse to ask them a question because these people have already put themselves out there as experts.