Sentence examples for excuse being from inspiring English sources

A wacky exercise in historical simulation, the excuse being a new century.

THE Guggenheim's "1900: Art at the Crossroads" is a wacky exercise in historical simulation, the excuse being a new century.

Even the excuse being churned out by senior management to journalists, whose past work is being scrutinised in minute detail, is similar: "If we don't co-operate, the police will come in anyway, using search warrants".

The main problem is that the total cost of security is kept secret – the implausible excuse being that to publish the total security budget would in itself jeopardise the security of the royals.

While Hannah's friends flee, Suzette, veteran acid head that she is, takes the girl in and comforts her and in the morning escorts her home, the official excuse being that Hannah got sick mixing red and white wine.

Seventy years later, he wrote to a friend, Lady Hester Pinney, expressing his shame at being present, adding: "My only excuse being that I was but a youth, and had to be in the town at that time for other reasons".

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.