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:

Puerto Ricans love entertainment, and they need no excuse to dress up, or generally let their hair down.
was never against quiet revenges with a moral excuse.
Sorry Excuse
What inspires this idea is China's assumption of political control over Hong Kong, which removes the last faint excuse for treating China and Hong Kong as separate economies--and therefore offers a way to make some of the same people feel better about another trade issue, the supposed threat posed by China's trade surplus.
Just as we Americans expected: Those Europeans will use any occasion as an excuse to stop working.