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Example sentences for: excuse

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

So it's not an excuse that he didn't get Gennifer Flowers pregnant.
Can you think of a better excuse for why one would be boyfriendless?
Just as we Americans expected: Those Europeans will use any occasion as an excuse to stop working.
I believe that dwelling on the past is just an excuse and easier than dealing with the present.
From what I've read of his oeuvre --two books on Diana, this latest one on Monica--he is our poet of female self-pity, a man for whom no excuse is suspect, no outrage inexplicable, as long as the explanation is given by a woman who can claim to have been hurt by a man, and as long as the man is a prince or a president.