Words similar to excuses

Example sentences for: excuses

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

The missing three dropped out with excuses of "my wife is sick" (one person) and "meeting is running long" (two).
And he's getting away with it, thanks to several excuses.
If all politics is a lie We tell ourselves, if People who think they are Conservative have horrible Anarchic lives, raping children And people who think They are radical, and Tell you so, typically, Are repressed, authoritarian, and Thinly frigid in their Personal bearings, Leaving the world on both sides To be divided up between Aggressive territorial types Finding ideological excuses To kill other people's children-- If all this is patently, Obviously so, so that Only poetry, and not Politics can save us-- Is there any hope for us then?
He excuses himself briefly, wipes the side of his phallus with a small alcohol wipe, and uses an auto-injector to painlessly inject a small amount of medication.
But the complexity and instability of the world are hardly excuses for the muddle and indirection of the world's only great power.