Sentence examples for excuses includes from inspiring English sources

"No Excuses" includes many political emergencies in which the equivalent of a 911 call is a Shrum Summons.

Last week's excuses includes blaming the refs for calling back two goals in the opening fifteen minutes, and then the excuse that Vancouver got lucky on an errant cross that somehow floated into the back of Columbus' net.

"Do Ricky Ponting's excuses include sending Symonds home?" wonders Jonathan Wood.

"Excuses include: I have to go to the post office, I have to do my laundry.

"Nooooo!" shrieked Williams as the panel searched for excuses, including a shortage of fags and booze.

("Common excuses include hangnails, blisters, flulike symptoms, new glasses and death of pet".

(Legitimate excuses include already having a holiday or operation booked, but you can only play that card once in a calendar year).

I called to tell them what happened, and was confronted with a slightly too well-rehearsed script of excuses, including, "We get our greens from the same place as Whole Foods".

Arriving late for school every day he comes up with some inventive excuses including meeting a mermaid with a treasure chest, being captured by a squid and going flying with a ray fish.

Sure, most of these organisations report on their GHG emissions (I managed to find a 2011 UN inventory), but the vast majority stop short of offsetting their emissions, citing assorted excuses including budgetary restrictions, a lack of direction from their executive group and a preference to reduce emissions first.

Frustrated staff made all kinds of excuses, including an old favourite of the British railways, the "wrong kind of snow .But the fact is that DB failed to invest enough in its infrastructure at home as it expanded abroad and tried to drive up profits to prepare for a partial privatisation.