Sentence examples for poor excuses from inspiring English sources

These were poor excuses, however.

Characters in American movies are just poor excuses to watch movie stars.

In the annals of poor excuses, "the check is in the mail" has an exalted place.

"Lame-duck sessions are poor excuses for sloppy, secretive legislation," John B. Oakes wrote in an Op-Ed in The New York Times after the 1982 session.

"It has required a court of law to summon the authorities for us to see their hand-wringing and poor excuses for inaction".

Tech isn't some out-of-the-way industry, whose poor excuses for a lack of self-reflexivity we can ignore (like a racist, cantankerous grandfather).

"Talking afterward, that's a poor excuse".

That our intentions are good is a poor excuse.

It was a poor excuse for a dive [laughs].

So it's a poor excuse to make".

It would be a poor excuse if we've done so again.