Sentence examples for excuse to ask from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

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.

"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.

It also gives mom and dad more time to be used to handling their new baby, which gives you lots of excuses to ask about the caring process rather than the birth itself (details of which can be really gruesome to have to listen to and risk coloring your impressions of the baby negatively).

She said: "One of the first things I did as an editor was ensure our newsroom had a dedicated female source book, so there was no excuse not to ask for a comment from a woman in finance or politics or health".

I excuse myself to ask Anjuma's sister waiting outside why no one has transferred Anjuma to the Sittwe General Hospital.

In a way, the camera provides me with an excuse to keep asking.

Once you are accused, no-one stops to ask: excuse me, did you really say this?