Sentence examples for sort of excuses from inspiring English sources

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

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.

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".

In hindsight, this is my favorite moment of the episode; every freak from Elliot Rodger to Dylann Roof has some sort of excuse for taking away the lives of people who wouldn't have been able, and will never have the opportunity, to pick them out of a police lineup.

But that is not the sort of excuse the African champions should be making.

So did most everyone around me, but that's not really any sort of excuse.

But she's heard every sort of excuse along the way. .

People are walking around saying "whoa is me... .. or "what can I do about it?" or fill in the blank with some sort of excuse.