Sentence examples for excuse to close from inspiring English sources

"They were looking for any excuse to close us.

"That just gives Cami an excuse to close more schools".

But the missile attack gave the Saudis a plausible excuse to close Hodeidah.

Such a fight, he said, could give the state legislature an excuse to close some police records to the public.

Will it actually change the world, or just give the worldly another excuse to close their ears to the church's moral message?

So successful were they in helping their black clients, often dealing with cases of police brutality, that the authorities found an excuse to close them down and move their office to a far less prominent site.

The evenings were also excuses to close out our eventful days with strolls by the many campfires crackling around the site, and once, to poke at a dead three-foot rattlesnake that someone had battered and left under a tree.

Some judges can seem almost robotic in their meticulous interpretations of the law - like scholars poring over their books looking for excuses to close their ears, rather than engaging with the realities of a convoluted, contradictory world.

It was really an excuse for Torre to close the clubhouse to the news media.

Yes, this is about celebrating the nation's mountains, but it's really just another excuse to force offices to close and overtaxed workers to chill the fuck out for a little while.

In the past it was an excuse to get close enough to woo, and it still is.