Sentence examples for the first excuse from inspiring English sources

Let's line them up shall we? Injuries will most likely be the first excuse we hear.

The first excuse is a legitimate one in Rio.

The first excuse for not indexing abroad was that indexes didn't cover enough companies and used a distorted weighting of those they did cover.

Co-worker resentment, I tell him, is the first excuse you'll hear most Managers use. Lee Hoople, 34, Outside the Graystone Ale House.

The first excuse: "I have never done it before" does not specify what the "it" in question is, but he has never done it, so fine.

She invited me to join her, which, after the third excuse not to, I did.

The Italian cycling federation accepted the second excuse and cleared him.

The second excuse is easy to dismiss: actually there is plenty of public appetite for banker bashing to continue.

The second excuse was not actually used in so many words by the minister, but it hangs over the whole issue of Big Brother surveillance and record-keeping.

The third excuse is the most difficult to gauge his word against hers.

And then the fifth excuse, the excuse de resistance, the most absurd of the bunch: "It could have been sherbet for all I know".