Words similar to excuse

Example sentences for: excuse

How can you use “excuse” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

James Foggo 3 rd , commanding officer of the attack submarine Oklahoma City . "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm late for the flogging," he did not add.
I don't have the excuse of a slow student--trust me on that.
Even the wrong excuse.
But there is no excuse for McInnis' just coming to grips with these objections.
Almost single-handedly, Murdoch has modernized the world's media, forcing competition on stagnant businesses, cracking open monopolies and oligopolies, vanquishing "traditions" that were often an excuse for laziness, unleashing the creative destruction of capitalism on an industry that thought itself exempt from it.