Sentence examples for excuse letter from inspiring English sources

After discovering a sheaf of written excuses from past years, he recognized an unexplored literary genre and asked students to write, say, an excuse letter from Adam or Eve to God, explaining why he or she should not be punished for eating the apple.

(Prison guards don't exactly dole out excuse letters).

"I am still stranded in the blistering Australian desert" was his charming excuse; the letter actually came from Oxford.

It would be no excuse, Mr. Letter went on, "to be saying, 'I want to help them in a good way.' " Mr. Fertig said he was saddened and mystified by the government's approach.

Nevertheless, although the Buyer could not excuse the letter by any undisclosed practice or intent of its own, and although judged by itself it might have constituted an "intimation" of acceptance, we think that, when it is read with what had passed between the parties before it was written, it is not susceptible of that understanding.

Excuse me now while I prepare some preemptive apology letters.

"We don't want to make excuses," the letter went on to say.

Sincerely, Mother   Edward, Please excuse my last letter.

He leaves her a letter excusing himself for deserting her, but he just can't bear moving.

Tiberius however, making no change in his voluptuous life, excused himself by letter for his absence from his last duty to his mother on the ground of the pressure of business.

"Excuse delay in answering letter," he wrote to a friend, "been busy getting married…!" Ethel was an astute and clever woman.