EXCUSE in a Sentence
Learn EXCUSE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
239 example sentences for EXCUSE, such as:
1. His conduct admits of no excuse.
2. She was not sorry for the excuse.
3. 'I do hope you'll excuse me,' she said.
4. 'That is no excuse,' replied Mr. Brownlow.
5. No, indeed, Mr. Bertram, you must excuse me.
2. She was not sorry for the excuse.
3. 'I do hope you'll excuse me,' she said.
4. 'That is no excuse,' replied Mr. Brownlow.
5. No, indeed, Mr. Bertram, you must excuse me.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of EXCUSE
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excuse
v. grant exemption or release to
n. a poor example
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 Prince John had now no further excuse for resisting the claim of the Disinherited Knight, whom, therefore, he named the champion of the day.
2 This excuse she stated before a great council of the clergy of England, as the sole reason for her having taken the religious habit.
3 My Liege," said the Friar, "I humbly crave your pardon; and you would readily grant my excuse, did you but know how the sin of laziness has beset me.
4 She went quietly round to the back, where the bank rose up; she had an excuse, to see the daffodils.
5 Now Connie would sometimes plead a headache as an excuse for going up to her room after dinner.
6 'I do hope you'll excuse me,' she said.
7 You must excuse my sister on this occasion, and accept of our two dear girls and myself without her.
8 Indeed, but you must, for we cannot excuse you.
9 No, indeed, Mr. Bertram, you must excuse me.
10 The rest of your note I know means nothing; but I am so unequal to anything of the sort, that I hope you will excuse my begging you to take no farther notice.
11 He was entangled by his own vanity, with as little excuse of love as possible, and without the smallest inconstancy of mind towards her cousin.
12 The object is a good one, and that must be our excuse.
13 'That is no excuse,' replied Mr. Brownlow.
14 Anne was so impressed by the degree of their danger, that she could not excuse herself from trying to make it perceptible to her sister.
15 She was not sorry for the excuse.
Example Sentence: (29 in 2 pages)
1 I had to admit it sounded like an implausible excuse.
2 The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse.
3 You can easily fake up an excuse to avoid going out with him.
4 He was late, so he fabricated an excuse to avoid trouble.
5 Waiting for you to come back into my life, is just an excuse for not completely letting go of you.
6 Nothing can possibly excuse him for such rude behavior.
7 He'd telephoned with some phoney excuse she didn't believe for a minute.
8 His conduct admits of no excuse.
9 The government recognised there were problems in urban areas but these could never be an excuse for lawless behaviour.
10 You can't keep using your bad back as an excuse.
11 Every time John is late getting home he trumps up some new excuse.
12 Ignorance of the law is no excuse of breaking it.
13 If we respond with violence, we'll be playing into their hands, giving them an excuse for a fight.
14 She gave him a pitying look; that was the sort of excuse her father would use.
15 I have ten thousand kinds of reasons to want to love you less now you can love an excuse.