Sentence examples for excuse for something from inspiring English sources

No excuse for something like that".

It's like, how often do you hear an excuse for something?

But the women's rights defence is a ridiculous excuse for something very close to racism.

The Manhattan Chess Club cynics have long taken it to be a lame excuse for something the brain did wrong and the player did not want to admit.

When two of the three were captured, they said that they had just been lost in the desert and confused, a funny excuse for something that was not funny at all.

I will never make an excuse for something like that.

Hacker attacks and censorship, critics say, are convenient excuses for something Google wanted to do anyway, without appearing to be retreating commercially.

THE Japanese call it gaiatsu--using foreign pressure as an excuse for doing something that everyone agrees is necessary but no one wants to take the flak for.

Also, the larger the team that is needed, the more likely it is to be penetrated.The Obama administration's attempt to develop a more coherent and perhaps less secret doctrine of cyber-warfare is sensible so long as it is not just an excuse for hyping something that, as far as is known, has yet to kill anybody.

Discouraged by big egos and political infighting (in Mooallem's telling, "the way people's good intentions can so easily curdle when combined"), Pennypacker remains fully committed to the cause: "The birds are an excuse for doing something good," he says.

One general form of excuse for doing something would be that one couldn't avoid doing it.