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Example sentences for: alibi

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Pressed about their cautious conduct of the war, Clinton's putative idealists invoke the classic realist alibi: impossibility.
(It would be difficult, for example, to find witnesses to corroborate an alibi many years after the fact.)
2. Greeting; form of address, semi-humorously or strongly contemptuous: What alibi now, Fxxxface?
But this doesn't add up to an alibi for Clinton.
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."