Sentence examples for sort of excuse from inspiring English sources

He refused to use the heat as any sort of excuse.

It didn't matter how much money I was making, it still felt like I had some sort of excuse.

According to the journalist, Iran's right-wing media have long "used any sort of excuse to support any wrangling with the west.

It was, of course, the sort of excuse made by rabble-rousers everywhere.Mr Chee, who is 36, is secretary-general of the Singapore Democratic Party and was trained as a scientist.

Even Mr Trump acknowledged that in six months' time it may emerge that the North Koreans are not taking action (adding, in a startling moment of candour, that "I will find some sort of excuse" rather than admit that).

It is the sort of excuse worthy of a shame-faced schoolboy, but the 40-year-old former French trade minister, Thomas Thévenoud, caused astonishment when he blamed his failure to pay rent or taxes on "administration phobia".

Some arguments make sense; others amount to the sort of excuses generally related from a therapist's couch.

This nugget of therapy talk is passed from one character to another in Noah Baumbach's "Greenberg," offered as an explanation, an excuse and a sort-of apology.

When it is Africa, there are all sorts of excuses".

Listen, you can come up with all sorts of excuses in life".

"They had all sorts of excuses," Ms. Appelbaum said of Doskocil, which quickly began missing its earnings targets.