Sentence examples for the friend excuse from inspiring English sources

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The weakness of the "but I have black friends!" excuse has been dismantled by writers time and time and time and time and time again.

Lindsay Pugh of Woman in Revolt writes of Richard that though he's not the rapist, "He's the male boss who doesn't stick up for you when a client uses micro-aggressions, the ex-boyfriend who gets drunk and slams you against a wall, the guy who makes excuses for the friend that raped you".

Medical treatment provided me the capacity to counter my illness, my family and friends became the excuse I constantly told myself to keep fighting the affliction.

We're long time friends, so excuse the mutual ribbing.

These things I learned: cracks and seams in the sidewalk are not the scooterist's friend, a polite "excuse me" cuts you only so much slack and the scooterist's code is a subtle one.

Or does your friend make excuses, disappearing when it becomes convenient?

If you and a friend are doing the toilet excuse to skive off hymn practice together, DON'T ask to use the toilet at the same time, and try to ask different teachers, because they were once your age and know the toilet thing where two of you go in the toilets and have a chat.

In the skit, a group of friends made excuses about why the results weren't going Hillary Clinton's way.

"Why does Victoria Pendleton have to be such a go-getting bicycle BITCH?" These random attacks on womankind are followed closely off her laptop keyboard by the flimsiest "I have black friends, honest" excuses ever.

Leave your cell phone number at the bottom and, when the administrator calls, confirm yourself or have a friend confirm the excused absence.

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