Sentence for excuse | Use excuse in a sentence

A sentence using the word excuse. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use excuse in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for excuse.

  • Excuse me! (9)
  • Excuse me now. (10)
  • Excuse me, Johnny. (8)
  • Excuse me a minute! (8)
  • But was that an excuse? (8)
  • Excuse me this morning, Mr. (9)
  • Mr. Collins must excuse me. (4)
  • Excuse me, Mr Bly, I must away. (8)
  • And yet, I have no excuse, none! (10)
  • But there was much excuse for him. (8)
  • It would excuse you for hating me. (10)
  • Excuse me, for I must speak plainly. (4)
  • What otherwise could be his excuse? (10)
  • She wants a good excuse for giving up. (9)
  • Her excuse was her guest, Miss Fellingham. (10)
  • He made an excuse, and got away to his room. (8)
  • He had his excuse for forming the judgement. (10)
  • I made an excuse, and sat up with some papers. (8)
  • It is urgent; you will excuse me when I explain. (10)
  • I can see it in one light that can excuse it some. (9)
  • Her next excuse was, that she had dropped her candle. (10)
  • Tonight he had real excuse for pride, but he felt none. (8)
  • They were, perhaps, the excuse for my conduct, if I had any. (10)
  • No sword on any account, or for any excuse, to be drawn, etc. (10)
  • Otherwise she had no excuse for shutting herself in her room. (10)
  • You give the excuse that you were drunk when you stole the box. (8)
  • For profanity and vulgarity he will accept no mitigating excuse. (21)
  • My excuse for dwelling upon him is, that he holds the link of my story. (10)
  • My excuse for dwelling upon him is, that he holds the link of my story. (22)
  • The letter succeeding the omission contained no excuse, and it was brief. (10)
  • But, upon my word, Mr. Elton, in your case, I should certainly excuse myself. (4)
  • But he had not seen her; so he had the full excuse to continue the adventure. (10)
  • Lucy murmured a word of excuse, and bore the splendid roarer out of the room. (10)
  • He did not come; and she could well excuse him, after her hearing of the tale. (10)
  • He was not slow, however, in perceiving that he had now his excuse for going home. (8)
  • An old friend in the reader of the letter would need no excuse for its jerky brevity. (10)
  • And it helped the plea in his own excuse, as Colney pointed out to the son of Nature. (10)
  • Mr. Triscoe had got his trunk open, and Burnamy had no longer an excuse for lingering. (9)
  • Nesta sent a line of excuse to Mrs. Marsett, throwing in a fervent adjective for balm. (10)
  • The extreme delicacy of the signal was at least an excuse for Harry to perceive nothing. (10)
  • Friend, was a title that ran on quicksands: an excuse that tried for an excuse. (10)
  • It was a lame excuse, and in its most potential implication his suggestion proved without reason. (9)
  • Sir, do I presume when I say I have your excuse for addressing you because you are his countryman? (10)
  • It is cold; so let that be his excuse for showing the bottom of his bottle to the glittering spheres. (22)
  • Are you really prepared to imitate in him, with less excuse for doing it, the things you most condemn? (10)
  • You have been in the wrong, and your having a good excuse will not help you before the deciding fates. (10)
  • And in this dilemma he was seized with impatience at all this paraphernalia of excuse and justification. (8)
  • She began not to understand a word they said, and was obliged to plead indisposition and excuse herself. (4)
  • When partly he did, the first excuse he clutched at was, that he had not even kissed her on the forehead. (10)
  • Angry at herself both for the internal feebleness and the exhibition of it, she blinked and begged excuse. (10)
  • He brought her a book which they had talked of at their last meeting, but he made no excuse or pretext of it. (9)
  • Mrs. Chump understood that this was merely his excuse to get away, that he might see her safe to Brookfield. (10)
  • What is it but an excuse to be idly minded, or personally lofty, or comfortably narrow, not perfectly humane? (10)
  • They attempted, therefore, likewise, to excuse themselves; the weather was uncertain, and not likely to be good. (4)
  • He had received a remittance from an unexpected source; and he hoped she would excuse his delay in repaying her loan. (9)
  • But all at once, while she sat there trying to think how I could excuse her, she began asking me what she should wear. (9)
  • Even if this family, the Braithwaites, are put off, I am still afraid that some excuse may be found for disappointing us. (4)
  • Since, however, I chose to excuse it, they said they would say nothing more about her, and she was turned face to the wall. (10)
  • He admitted his special faults, but, by distinctly tracing them to their origin, he complacently hinted the excuse for them. (10)
  • By this I mean that she had voluntarily stripped her spirit bare of evasion, and seen herself for what she was; pleading no excuse. (10)
  • Mrs. Lapham knew that he was silently inquiring for Penelope, and she did not know whether she ought to excuse her to him first or not. (9)
  • Mr. Pericles relieved them by moving forward and doffing his hat, at the same time begging excuse for the rudeness they were guilty of. (10)
  • She went to the library, imagining that if he wished to see her he would appear, and by exposing his own weakness learn to excuse hers. (10)
  • She knew only her wretched state; a frenzy seized her whenever his name was uttered, to excuse, account for, all but glorify him publicly. (10)
  • 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. (4)
  • Mrs. Mountstuart is bewildered: she says she expected you, and that you did not excuse yourself to her, and she cannot comprehend, et caetera. (10)
  • If she believed that Penelope would not finally change her mind and go, no doubt Mrs. Lapham thought that Mrs. Corey would easily excuse her absence. (9)
  • Extortionate fees are levied for all privileges, and in many cities hordes of professional damage seekers await a pretense of excuse for demanding money. (21)

Also see sentences for: apology, artifice, defense, evasion, exoneration, extenuation, forgive.

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