Excuses in a sentence

After their turning into Trump-voting, do-my-own-research weirdos, I really think white GenXers second biggest shame is stealing the word "stank" and looking for excuses to use it everywhere.

A miserable night was capped off by the sight of Pedro Caixinha standing in a bush trying to make excuses in front of the furious fans.

And even though most won't care or think I'm making excuses I suffer from several mental health issues.

A polite “no” is brief, neutral, and does not offer a list of reasons, which might come off as excuses, or, worse – invite further inquiry and conversation.

As a janitor, he’s allowed to have excuses.

As excuses for getting out of tricky work meetings go, having “constant diarrhoea” usually works a treat – and so it proved for the artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti in a letter written 155 years ago.

Asked about O’Sullivan after his victory over Ding, Vafaei suggested O’Sullivan was a nice person when he was asleep and even put on an Essex accent as he criticised the world number one for always making excuses.

As part of this year’s campaign, officers have shared some of the poor excuses they hear from motorists who have been arrested for driving whilst under the influence of drink and drugs.

As the political wing of the IRA, it was used to making excuses for the murder of innocents, but it is now the joint largest party in the Irish Dail.

Because of the way in which the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were prosecuted we can all now plot our own excuses through the mess.

But again, let me just make a general comment, we are acutely aware of the one-offs that of course the pain, but as we all know, this is mining, and if you keep on having one-offs, they cannot become excuses.

But none of those excuses will matter if you reach retirement age with little saved.

But the present government first held investigations, then cases were filed which were now in courts that had summoned Imran, but he was making lame excuses to avoid court cases.

But those excuses don’t explain why Maine’s rate of abuse keeps getting worse, nor do they recognize that every other child welfare agency in the country is dealing with the same set of circumstances.

But we’re not making excuses.

Deaths of under 25s also increased by seven per cent, rising to 16 - confounding the repeated excuses churned out by government ministers about an “ageing cohort” that was cruelly expected to die off.

Delhi BJP Working President Virendra Sachdeva on Sunday said Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was trying to find excuses to evade a probe in connection with the alleged liquor policy scam.

Director Jafar Panahi said Iranian authorities had made repeated excuses as to why he was not being released, reports ‘Deadline’.

For a guy with one playoff win in nine seasons, excuses surround LaVine like protective feathers.

Go back decades and you can find all the same policy goals promoted by the Left, with ever-changing excuses for pursuing them.