Sentence examples for excuses to explain from inspiring English sources

Couch potatoes have many excuses to explain their sedentary ways.

The providers listed "data entry errors" among other dubious excuses to explain away their conduct.

On Sunday night, United Russia said the opposition parties were reaching for excuses to explain their poor showing.

Blaming the victim is common, as is endlessly finding excuses to "explain" why some men brutalise women.

He's precisely the self-centered, shortsighted, and insecure figure he appears to be, and he's now flailing around for excuses to explain a humiliating defeat in the making.

WHEN an organization does not function properly, in the private or public sector, there are always excuses to explain why (Enron, anyone?).

Rachel's naïveté gives "Crazy Rich Asians" an excuse to explain all things Asian and expensive to the touristy reader.

And they use it as an excuse to explain everything that is going wrong with their lives".

Rather than address this root cause of educational failure, it is used as an excuse to explain the patchwork results of classroom reforms.

I was very fortunate to be invited to Christmas lunch in Delhi by some English friends, who, hearing that neither my nineteen-year-old son nor I had ever been baptized, seized upon the excuse to explain to their own spouses that a makeshift wicket should immediately be set up on the back lawn.

We are a jack of all trades and definitely master of none and we quickly fall into the trap of using 'in' terms such as complex need and high risk almost as an excuse to explain why we don't do the one thing that is needed – give Bob a bed.