Michael made up an excuse to not do this homework.
She had no excuse for being late for class.
Excuse me, please. That's a poor excuse for a hunting dog.
Yes, of course. A word you couldn't use in a sentence would be a pretty poor excuse for a word.
Your excuse is superfluous; the more you try to explain, the phonier it sounds.
I was not privy to the details of the confidential meeting.
They purchased a truck load of drinks for the party, and there was no excuse for such exorbitance.
There was no excuse for the team's failure.
Saying that your book report blew out the car window is a flimsy excuse.
The first syllable, "ex-", is stressed in the word "excuse."
Example sentence with abstract nouns in bold:I have no excuse but laziness, not a good excuse but an honest one.
How about the following?"Nowadays, there is no good excuse for spelling the word "parallel" incorrectly, since it is so easy to use a spell-checker."
There could be 2 different ways to use "excuse." "Please excuse me from the table." In this use, "excuse" means "Please forgive me for leaving the table." This is the same usage for "Excuse me." used when you pass someone, bump into someone, or interrupt someone. OR "That's not a good excuse." This one is a little confusing. The word is used as a "reason," as in "That's not a good reason." This definition is faulty. A reason is not an excuse, and an excuse is not a reason. To excuse irrational behavior, or to excuse an irrational explanation is an excuse. A rationalization is making a poor explanation sound like a good reason. A rationale is an explanation of a good reason.
Without a doctor's note, the coach won't excuse me from practice.