Sentence examples for most excuses from inspiring English sources

But most excuses are never worked-around.

Most excuses will not be accepted, but some, such as medical excuses, will get you dismissed.

Moreover, even if you can carry off the excuse convincingly, the host will likely be unimpressed with most excuses apart from illness, knowing that you could have juggled things to make space for the event.

That's the most obvious excuse (and "excuse" is the right word), but perhaps it's something more.

View our gallery of politicians' most ridiculous excuses here.

"I saw a top-10 list of the most ridiculous excuses for positive drug tests," Tygart said.

You can read this weekend's Your Money column for my attempt at knocking down some of the most common excuses.

But the "it was performance art" line ranks pretty high in the all-time most innovative excuses or explanations for questionable behaviour.

The 28-year-old's Swedish mother, Elisabet, said her husband used to write "the most appalling excuses … for years and years" to get their golf-mad son off school.

The most common excuses included pretending their child was sick (35%), visiting sick relatives (20%), a family wedding (18%) and a trip for educational purposes (16%).

The Guardian's Keza MacDonald wrote a great story in February that addressed the most common excuses used; I'd rather you read through her post than rehash her points here.