Sentence examples for using the excuse that from inspiring English sources

And they're using the excuse that "we don't want to kill civilians".

Not a lot - although with Shilpa's win I hope we finally stop using the excuse that Big Brother holds up a mirror to society.

In that chamber, too, appropriators have been disabled, with leaders using the excuse that the House will not negotiate in good faith by using the same budget numbers.

"I try to sneak in an extra towel here and there during the match," the Tour's joker-in-chief confessed, "using the excuse that it's too warm and I'm sweating".

But the pressing problem, while I was there, was the abduction of Gypsy children by the police using the excuse that they were abandoned because they were selling flowers in restaurants and weren't enrolled in school.

One way to read it is that Gladys wanted to keep Cassie to herself, using the excuse that she wanted to protect her from her self-destructive behavior, and came up with a sick, twisted Alicia Silverstone-in- Crush -way.

Most of us use the excuse that it's our way of staying in touch with family and friends we don't see often.

I don't use the excuse that I'm a freshman".

I used the excuse that I was writing a book in the bathtub".

"No one wants to use the excuse that we were tired," wing Kevin Stevens said.

"Do not use the excuse that I'm an actor to dismiss this subject," Danson said.