Sentence examples for excuse would be from inspiring English sources

The excuse would be made, the gaffe forgiven.

To give entrance to that excuse would be to invite a speedy end of our national solidarity.

"You know what their excuse would be now?" she asked, and leaned in close over her jewelry counter.

I had somebody to blame, and as sorry as that excuse would be, it still was there.

"I think it is unbelievable that somebody would do this and that we still live in a society where his excuse would be listened to".

Thus in discussing the defence of impossibility, then Chief Judge Cardozo noted an excuse would be provided "conceivably in some circumstances by unavoidable strikes". Canadian Industrial Alcohol Co. Ltd. v. Dunbar Molasses Co. 258 N.Y.

"No Excuses" would be a much-discussed book even without its candid character assessments.

A week of polite excuses would be made until my father called, distraught, and I was summoned to see my mother, dissolved in hopeless tears, in her perfectly appointed, all-white, mirror-walled apartment.

When leaving a party early, for example, any number of excuses would be preferable to saying that we're getting bored and sleepy, which may be the truth.

If I had any excuse it would be that it's Monday, but honestly I just blew this one.

"We're trying to take away the excuse that they would be penalized by the barons of the party".