Sentence examples for excuse for taking from inspiring English sources

Grab on to this excuse for taking it easy while it lasts.

Perhaps it's a good excuse for taking a long hard look at the market and where we really are.

The Honeys and Bears hold practice every day, believing that being an older adult is no excuse for taking it easy.

Airlines have used these events as an excuse to take months to return customers' money but really there is no excuse for taking so long.

In hindsight, this is my favorite moment of the episode; every freak from Elliot Rodger to Dylann Roof has some sort of excuse for taking away the lives of people who wouldn't have been able, and will never have the opportunity, to pick them out of a police lineup.

"The fact the Farnells told the same lie to their family provides strong evidence of their belief they were acting in Pipah's best interests but it provides no excuse for taking the lie one step further by repeating it under oath," he said.

Fischer apparently meant this as a protestation of innocence, but Americans could be excused for taking it another way.

As an editor yourself Alan do you believe that Ms Brooks can rightly be excused for taking part responsibility for the phone hacking?

THE drumbeat of good economic news is becoming so familiar that the nation might be excused for taking its prosperity for granted.

Credit View full screen Anyone fixated for the past eleven days on the revolution streaming live from Cairo, Alexandria, and Suez could be excused for taking liberties with John F. Kennedy's immortal Cold War proclamation — "Ich bin ein … Egyptian".

By Mark Singer February 4, 2011 Anyone fixated for the past eleven days on the revolution streaming live from Cairo, Alexandria, and Suez could be excused for taking liberties with John F. Kennedy's immortal Cold War proclamation — "Ich bin ein … Egyptian".