How do you use Excuse in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like justify or forgive, plus the exact meaning.
Excuse meaning
- To forgive; to pardon; to overlook.
- To allow to leave, or release from any obligation.
- To provide an excuse for; to justify.
Synonyms of Excuse
Using Excuse
- The main meaning on this page is: To forgive; to pardon; to overlook. | To allow to leave, or release from any obligation. | To provide an excuse for; to justify.
- Useful related words include: justify, forgive, example, apology.
- In the example corpus, excuse often appears in combinations such as: an excuse, excuse for, excuse to.
Context around Excuse
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 9 start, 8 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Excuse
- In this selection, "excuse" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, good, blanket, acceptable, hereafter, good and lashed stand out and add context to how "excuse" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a blanket excuse to be and a good excuse hereafter. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "excuse" sits close to words such as accidents, brave and invitation, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with excuse
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Excuse after excuse and refused to accept blame. (8 words)
Any excuse to pour concrete and overcharge the taxpayer. (9 words)
Any excuse to give up is not an excuse good enough for them. (13 words)
Although Paul Wellens did not look to fatigue as an excuse for the way they were pipped by a point in their first home game since September - the Saints boss suggested that they are in "unchartered waters" when it comes to their recovery. (43 words)
Despite the players clearly affected by the severity of the injury, Cuthbert wasn’t using that to justify their poor first half display, as he added: “You can use what happened to Luke as an excuse, but it wasn’t an excuse. (42 words)
A lot of the terrible shows on this list have the excuse of being products of their time, but there was no excuse in 2017 to have shoddy special effects like this, especially coming from the likes of Marvel. (39 words)
Example sentences (20)
She said: “There’s no excuse for this behaviour under any circumstances – and it’s no excuse that you have taken drink.
The public is expecting and the thromde’s excuse of “lack of budget” will not be a good excuse hereafter.
Excuse after excuse and refused to accept blame.
The Government have made excuse after excuse for far too long to justify cutbacks in health services.
The outreach is targeted to voters in states where no excuse is needed to vote by mail or where fears of the coronavirus are accepted as an excuse.
Any excuse to give up is not an excuse good enough for them.
A lot of the terrible shows on this list have the excuse of being products of their time, but there was no excuse in 2017 to have shoddy special effects like this, especially coming from the likes of Marvel.
Despite the players clearly affected by the severity of the injury, Cuthbert wasn’t using that to justify their poor first half display, as he added: “You can use what happened to Luke as an excuse, but it wasn’t an excuse.
A defence lawyer told Antrim Magistrates Court, sitting in Ballymena, there was "absolutely no excuse" for such a speed.
A judge was left perplexed by a Shropshire paedophile's excuse after he was caught trying to have sex chats with 12-year-old girls by undercover police.
All of these empathetic myths can give people a blanket excuse to be against EVs, whether due to politics or simply fear of the unknown.
Although, it does give players an excuse to explore every nook and cranny in which is a reward in itself, thanks to the game’s atmosphere.
Although Paul Wellens did not look to fatigue as an excuse for the way they were pipped by a point in their first home game since September - the Saints boss suggested that they are in "unchartered waters" when it comes to their recovery.
Analysts previously said North Korea would likely use the drills as an excuse to carry out more missile launches and perhaps even a nuclear test.
Anderson could find an excuse for every missed shot, Calhoun said, from the slightest bump by a defender to the atmospheric pressure changes of a New England winter.
And I must note that pointing out that “she doesn’t have any trauma” that would be an acceptable excuse for her “old-fashioned views” about porn and sex toys, or masturbation, is … well, just gross.
Andrew Whaley, senior technical director at Norwegian cybersecurity company Promon, said: “This is a pretty lame excuse.
Any excuse for a party I suppose, as this coming weekend will testify – coinciding (probably no coincidence though) with England against Ireland in Dublin in the final round of the Six Nations.
Any excuse to pour concrete and overcharge the taxpayer.
Arthur Rennie, who had earlier been found with a blade in a public place without reasonable excuse, lashed out after being locked up in a cell for the weapon offence.
Common combinations with excuse
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- an excuse 58×
- excuse for 52×
- excuse to 45×
- no excuse 30×
- the excuse 12×
- excuse me 12×
- to excuse 9×
- excuse that 8×
- excuse of 8×
- any excuse 7×