Sentence examples for excuses for something from inspiring English sources

Hacker attacks and censorship, critics say, are convenient excuses for something Google wanted to do anyway, without appearing to be retreating commercially.

No excuse for something like that".

It's like, how often do you hear an excuse for something?

But the women's rights defence is a ridiculous excuse for something very close to racism.

When two of the three were captured, they said that they had just been lost in the desert and confused, a funny excuse for something that was not funny at all.

I will never make an excuse for something like that.

Nas, 2Pac and Biggie never won Grammys, and there's no excuse for something like that.

You can always find an excuse for something, and embrace that excuse until you turn it into a reality.

(By the way, it was nice to see a person not make excuses for getting something wrong and apologizing, and even better to see Puig's reaction).

THE Japanese call it gaiatsu--using foreign pressure as an excuse for doing something that everyone agrees is necessary but no one wants to take the flak for.

Cynics can be excused for suspecting something fishy about warnings from Tom Ridge, the White House director of homeland security, about possible terrorist attacks.