excuse for in a sentence

According to human insight, saint Peter certainly had some excuse for being slow in per mitting God to prostrate Himself before an earthly and sinful man as he was and to allow Him, whom he had so recently acknowledged and adored as his Creator, to per form such an unheard of act of self-abasement .

She is a poor excuse for a singer.

She made an excuse for being late.

He invented an excuse for being late.

Oversleeping is no excuse for being late.

I concocted an excuse for missing the party.

You must have a proper excuse for missing an exam.

He used a headache as an excuse for leaving early.

He cooked up a good excuse for not going to the party.

You must have a legitimate excuse for missing an exam.

Remember that oversleeping is no excuse for being late.

I can’t come up with a good excuse for being late for the dentist.

The student’s excuse for handing his essay in late simply wasn’t credible.

Being tired from a party last night isn’t an excuse for not doing your homework.

You must have a legitimate excuse for being absent from class or you will lose marks.

Edgar Bergen once joked that ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

Charlie McCarthy once said that ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

I don’t think there is any excuse for his behavior.

At the same time, we should listen to what he has to say.

This tiny porker has an excuse for making a pig of himself at mealtimes.

369199 Instead, they use financial meetings as an excuse for a night out.

This is just someone looking for an excuse for why the team lost the game.

That’s my excuse for not being able to lift the hammer, and I’m sticking to it.

I have no excuse for my actions, Fradella, 59, told U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan.

It lays to rest the flawed argument that Chinese pollution is an excuse for US inaction.

“There is absolutely no excuse for people being locked up in hospitals away from families.

There is no excuse for professors to lose those emails or neglect to read a 20-page policy.

Autumn Wozny, Keno’s sister-in-law, said there is no excuse for what was done to the child.

Because she is the main subject, there is no excuse for Robinson not to work on her collection.

However, none of this is an excuse for what I did,” Dre told the New York Times in a statement.

I have no excuse for this, other than both events — so close to one another — upset me greatly.

When it comes to face-saving, a referendum would provide the perfect excuse for the supreme leader.

Stella is like a series of vaudeville comedy bits strung together by the thinnest excuse for a plot.