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Example sentences for: excused

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

A government order excused most of the sect's adherents as victims who didn't know they were joining a subversive political organization.
(Once he excused himself from an audience with the pope to call.)
KSM says that he never met with Mihdhar in 1999 but assumed that Bin Ladin and Atef had briefed Mihdhar on the planes operation and had excused him from the Karachi training.
This might be excused by the fact that the top three tiers of the building collapsed several hundred years ago.
I excused myself at once, left Roger in Cupid's hands and went over to check out another participle I'd noticed dangling by the bar.