Sentence examples for excuse use from inspiring English sources

If you want to be an entrepreneur, don't use your current job as an excuse, use it as an opportunity.

But if you have your own excuse, use it!

If you have a legitimate excuse, use it.

Ignorance of the rules has been an excuse used by some people in the past.

The excuse used by the government back then was swine flu.

Valentine pinned Sunday's 8-0 lons on the pitching of Andy Pettitte, the kind of excuse used often this season.

After all, not being a fascist does not excuse using a fascist gesture in a moment of euphoria.

A spokesman for the Scottish Gamekeepers Association says this is an excuse used by those that favour culling.

Often the excuse used is that there are not enough financial resources to justify the expense, or they feel it's just faster to complete the tasks themselves.

The excuse used by many traditional Hollywood types, that religion is just too controversial a matter to deal with in cinema, has always rung false.

But that is the same unacceptable excuse used during apartheid by white people for why they couldn't provide books to black children.