excuse

Example Sentences

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The Syrian foreign ministry denounced the attack as "an outrageous assault on Syria's sovereignty and territorial integrity" and called Israel's justification "flimsy pretexts and fabricated excuses".

From BBC

Counsel to the inquiry, Rachel Langdale KC, said: "At this point there can be no excuses institutionally for that, can there, that this was identified and he could have been picked up?"

From BBC

He's got no excuse not to run back if Beckham is running back and doing that and he's the captain.

From BBC

He turned a number of corners while we grew more and more embarrassed at following him without any real excuse.

From Literature

I have no excuse for this, except that I was fifteen, and felt that day by day all my happiness was being taken from me.

From Literature