Sentence examples for excuses for taking from inspiring English sources

Three hours later, I'm miraculously back on my bike and grinding up the side of a mountain in the rain, compiling a list of reasonable excuses for taking the train back home.

Earlier this year, we went to question and answer site Quora to find some of the best excuses for taking a day off.

Then we lose our excuses for taking refuge in cynicism or hopelessness.

If attitudes conveyed in interview studies are so easily influenced by economic incentives, are they then mere excuses for taking the easy way out in practice?

Grab on to this excuse for taking it easy while it lasts.

Fischer apparently meant this as a protestation of innocence, but Americans could be excused for taking it another way.

True, injuries do happen — but don't let the threat of problems become an excuse for taking to your couch.

Perhaps it's a good excuse for taking a long hard look at the market and where we really are.

Airlines have used these events as an excuse to take months to return customers' money but really there is no excuse for taking so long.

And if the swine of any freeman spend one night in our forest, that shall not be made the excuse for taking anything of his away from him.

As an editor yourself Alan do you believe that Ms Brooks can rightly be excused for taking part responsibility for the phone hacking?