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Example sentences for: excuses

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

"No matter how they explain it, or what excuses they come up with for the situation in East Timor, the bottom line is Indonesia is responsible for everything that has happened there," it said.
As readers are quick to point out, my attention to such matters occasionally wanders, for which I offer no excuses.
Also, the Times says that Benjamin Netanyahu assailed Yassir Arafat for encouraging terrorism, and Arafat accused Netanyahu of making excuses for the collapse of the peace process.
In the Present we recognize that barriers are not excuses.
Serb defendants' excuses: 1) they weren't aware of the concentration camps that killed and tortured Muslims; 2) the camps started out innocently and then got out of hand; or 3) they killed prisoners because they anticipated a murderous onslaught by Muslims.