Sentence examples for strange excuse from inspiring English sources

At the same time, don't pretend to be of a different nationality; it might get you in trouble and put you in the position where you either have to lie or make a strange excuse.

"They would try to give me all these goodies, and I was saying no with increasingly strange excuses about why I was turning down these jobs".

"Whenever these tests come out, people have some really strange excuses," said Collins.

What strange excuses for someone to make with regard to a provision that he claimed, a mere five months ago (when he knew it couldn't pass), was such a moral and policy imperative that he "would not relent" in ensuring its enactment.

But for those who give quarters to strange menNwhat excuse do they have for not giving more?

It's a classic scene in a strange picture that excuses informing (Elia Kazan had done this before he directed it) and says: don't let your son work in the docks.

Please excuse that strange peroration.

As delegates walked the damp, dark campus, they wondered about the strange similarity between the excuses of vice-chancellor and bartender.

What's strange is that Menand excuses Macdonald's, and the wider viewing community's, enduring indifference, even decades later, to the art (and that's the right word for it) that was being created in Hollywood: Before 1962, an educated cultural consumer might understandably have concluded that there was not much in the world of popular entertainment that demanded serious attention.

"There is no excuse for this strange day," Rost said.

0 26 Everyone knows that a sports bar celebration is really just a ready excuse to hug strange women.