Sentence examples for excuse told me from inspiring English sources

When I asked if he could produce any recordings or notes from his interviews, he laughed and, admitting that it sounded like a "tired" excuse, told me that he had lost the tapes in some cases, and in others had "thrown them away".

The excuse they told me was because Rosol has to play doubles.

"People who have never experienced mental illness assume it's a myth or an excuse," she told me.

"I was out of excuses," she told me.

Excuse me? "Someone told me you used to be a TV writer.

I remember a lesson in Year 10, I could feel my heart pounding in my chest as if I'd just ran a marathon and I had to excuse myself," she told me.

As one Nigerian told me: "Excuse the crudeness but Mr Sanusi had become a mosquito on the president's testicles" - the dilemma being whether to ignore or to smash.

Attending a college in the same city I already live in gave my parents every excuse to tell me, "Save your money," by which they meant, of course, their money.

I'd known I was a girl since I was four, if you'll excuse the cliche, but everyone told me I couldn't be, because of a pesky penis between my legs.

One, who usually needs no excuse for a good rebellion, told me that no-one who'd led the Lib Dems into coalition with their mortal enemy could ever prosper.

A pardon, Feldman told me, would excuse Trump in case he faced charges after leaving office.