Sentence examples for excuses for students from inspiring English sources

Syracuse might be pretty far north, stuck in the cold for most of the school year, but with a strong basketball team and heated rivalries there are plenty of excuses for students to party during the bitter winter.

Mr. Williams attributed the problem to teachers' lengthy illnesses, but insisted this was no excuse for students to do poorly.

Will "My Kindle ate my homework" become the default digital excuse for students?

The daughter of two immigrants from Pakistan who had hardly any education themselves, I always believed there was no excuse for students to not graduate from high school.

"We can always make excuses for why students in a district like this don't do well.

Sex plays its part; ragging is often an excuse for older students to badger freshers.

Once upon a time there was at least a plausible excuse for requiring students to return to school in August.

Paul Sellers of the Trades Union Congress worries that "glamorous" industries such as television, film and public relations are using internships as an excuse for ripping students off.

He mentions the shooting of Tamir Rice in passing, as if it were merely an excuse for the students to rile themselves up, rather than an existential threat.

I get misrepresented as an excuse for art students to do nothing during their degrees, then turn up and think everyone owes them something.

I can make excuses for this failing — students often prefer advisers who are more methodical and less intuitive, and I all too often scare students off by demanding that they use less math and more economics.