Sentence examples for finding an excuse from inspiring English sources
"finding an excuse" is a correct and usable phrase in written English
It can be used to describe the action of searching for or coming up with a reason to justify one's actions or behavior. Example: "Instead of taking responsibility for his mistakes, he was always busy finding an excuse to shift the blame onto others."
In reality, Teixeira was only finding an excuse to grab the bat he kept there.
But that's the definition of grit and determination to me -- when everybody's always finding an excuse and you're still playing".
Players could be "finding an excuse for why your performance isn't what it was before," Lans said.
To put it in Romneyesque terms, it's all about finding an excuse to slash programs that help people who like to watch Nascar events, even while lavishing tax cuts on people who like to own Nascar teams.
"It seems more [about] the government finding an excuse to keep politicians, advocates and lawyers out of detention centres than it is about the genuine issues facing people inside," she told ABC Radio on Thursday.
Like Sara Crewe, who invited a procession of peers into her room to eat cake and hear tales from India, I am forever finding an excuse to pick up a book and (inevitably) butcher a character's accent.
It was against this backdrop that Robert refused to consecrate Spearhafoc, although there is no other evidence that Robert embraced the reform position, and his claim that the pope forbade the consecration may have had more to do with finding an easy excuse than any true desire for reform.
'Down here,' we're vivacious yet often consumed by our vices--looking for an escape from the routines of everyday life, finding any excuse for a festival.
Boes could have obediently jumped through the hoops as demanded of him by the government, playing the same game that thousands do, wasting a few hours or days filling out applications and going to interviews before being turned down or finding a plausible excuse for refusing the job.
It might not have been the most effective cleaning job, and Bloomberg was arguably less concerned about cleanliness and more interested in finding a backdoor excuse to kick the protesters out, but try making those cynical points to a guy with a sign around his neck who is on his hands and knees scraping paint off the ground.
At the time the magazine was emerging from a period during which it believed itself to be a sort of music-themed version of the New Left Review, its writers finding any excuse to shoehorn a bit of continental theory into the weekly singles review.
