Sentence examples for making the excuse from inspiring English sources

First and foremost, stop making the excuse that your job is more secure than freelancing.

Interestingly, we often don't realize this when we're making the excuse, which might explain why we often blame our time.

Making the excuse that his wife was not a good traveller, he seldom ventured far from their quiet home in Hartford.

I need to be more productive with my free time rather than making the excuse that I have too much work to do.

The 29th fell on a Friday, and when I got home from work I headed straight to our bedroom, making the excuse I needed to change and chill out for a while.

While the United States also sought to use its influence with the Saudi government to press the British case, a State Department official said, "The Saudis kept making the excuse about us having the Saudi detainees at Guantánamo".

Some make the excuse that women do not have the physical strength to compete.

She made the excuse she had a competition but that behaviour is indicative of something wrong.

They're projecting their own failure and using black people to make the excuse.

The pope's distress was made the excuse for a new financial empire, with no accountability for the funds used.

He, too, owned a gun as a young man: "I made the excuse that I needed it for self-protection".