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Example sentences for: alibi

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Democrats will use this alibi in nearly every close race.
There's probably no staler chestnut than the Southern alibi that it wasn't slavery's defense but honor and loyalty to place that made most Confederates take up arms to fight the Northern "aggressors."
(I fed the family alibi to the Washington Post when I quit my Washington job in 1994.
Many tender the family alibi because they're ashamed of having been fired, or embarrassed to admit that they've conceded defeat to the god of success (Paxon's case, I'm sure), or because they're going nuts on the job.
Not a bad alibi.