Sentence examples for with some excuse from inspiring English sources
He'd expected her to be nervous with him — at what point might she leap up and end the evening with some excuse or other?
Every single year Peter Hall would ask me to do something and every single year I turned him down with some excuse or other.
His wife answered and she came to walk me back to their house, where he eventually turned up with some excuse about work.
Come up with some excuse for it!
We come up with some excuse to not pursue a new career or start a business.
As long as they can come up with some excuse, some pretext, for pulling someone over, you can then begin a fishing expedition for drugs.
What I have learned as a researcher of Yiddish who has lived in Lithuania for 11 years is that the obsession with finding some excuse – preferably that excuse – for massive local participation in the Holocaust is very much alive today among the elite classes of politicians, academics (especially historians) and media people throughout the region.
Most often she was with someone, but whether alone or with company she'd find some excuse to bully her daughter out of bed.
S. and her husband have been avoiding the question of why they haven't chosen that "church home" for a long time, always with some valid excuse: new home!
Most of the time they come up with some ridiculous excuse, such as you're a fire hazard, but they will at least try to be polite about it, but this time, this guy actually called me a 'fucking cripple'.
"For a long time, those of us in the arts community have had to sell arts as an economic engine or a way to bring new business to town or with some other excuse," she continued.
