Sentence examples for excuses lay from inspiring English sources

"In 14 years of failure, Mark Fabiani has done nothing but make excuses, lay blame, and pick fights.

A new set of fabric-bound books, "Lines for All Occasions," offers suggested excuses, lies, insults, comebacks, pep talks, pick-ups and come-ons.

Nor do they excuse lies as higher truth.

How do you excuse lying and deceiving a wife who stood by you for 50 years, and still stands by you?

How do you excuse lying to your brother and two sons who spent their whole adult life helping to build a successful and respectful business?

These rationalizations (or excuses) all lay out plausible reasons for Russian troops to intervene, and yet the Russian forces in Crimea have done all they can to not look very Russian at all.

"But the law has become a convenient excuse to lay off workers".

It did not, for instance, show Hasan Yousefi-Eshkevari, a journalist and moderate cleric, shouting down the protesters disrupting his speech, or Jamileh Kadivar, the only parliamentary deputy among the accused, storming out of the conference hall in disgust.The conference, it seems, was useful as an excuse to lay low uppity reformists.

While the economy is beaten down, he is unlikely to propose any new clean air legislation that would burden industrial air polluters with costly new requirements, or give them an excuse to lay off more workers.

The last thing you want is your twenty something using their lack of experience and the slow job market as an excuse to lay on the couch watching reality TV.

This is also a good excuse to lay in the sun patch if someone more industrious questions what you're doing.