Sentence examples for minute excuse from inspiring English sources

Everyone in New York and L.A. has had this experience: you make a plan for dinner with a buddy, which he cancels with a lame, last minute excuse ("I'm just exhausted").

Without for a minute excusing Hurd's behavior, ask yourself whether you, or any of your friends, are perfect in your behavior and judgment 100% of the time.

She told the court that seeking a last-minute excuse to call off a vacation with her boyfriend, of whom her parents disapprove, she called Düsseldorf Airport to say that a bomb was timed to go off that day.

"I don't think the commission would describe it this way, but what we seem to be getting are a bunch of made-up last-minute excuses to justify what is basically a fire sale," said Dusty Rhodes, Hamilton County's auditor.

I don't buy for a minute her excuse of student debt and other expenses after endless Instagrams of a lavish vacation to England and nights spent in expensive restaurants.

After a few minutes, I excuse myself to go and look for her.

I took my place on the aisle, and within a minute she excused herself and walked a few rows up to talk to the man with the golf magazine.

After chatting for a few more minutes, Hastreiter excused herself.

When one shirt is drenched (within minutes), he excuses himself to change into another, and then another.

"After a few minutes he excused his lapse of self-control by saying, 'It's O.K. for grown-ups to cry,' " Gregory recalls.

After a few minutes, he excused his lapse of self-control by saying, 'It's okay for grownups to cry.' I knew his heart was breaking.