Sentence examples for first excuse from inspiring English sources

Let's line them up shall we? Injuries will most likely be the first excuse we hear.

The doomed ministers were guilty of offences, true, but they were also acting like lots and lots of upper middle class Swedes who never expected to end up in government.This is neither to defend or condemn David Laws: his first excuse is that he wanted to keep his sexuality private, and so did not want to declare his boyfriend as a partner for the purpose of parliamentary expenses.

The first excuse is a legitimate one in Rio.

The first excuse: "I have never done it before" does not specify what the "it" in question is, but he has never done it, so fine.

He also said the M4 – the road he was taking – isn't as navigable as it used to be, which makes maybe less sense than his first excuse.

When you catch up to the girl, first excuse yourself to get her attention.

She invited me to join her, which, after the third excuse not to, I did.

The Italian cycling federation accepted the second excuse and cleared him.

The second excuse is easy to dismiss: actually there is plenty of public appetite for banker bashing to continue.

But if, after the rain, Nairobi remains crippled by stringent power and water rationing, the government will be hard put to find a third excuse.

It's rude and offensive, and being dressed to the nines at a public event doesn't for a second excuse it.