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.
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.
The first syllable, "ex-", is stressed in the word "excuse."
Saying that your book report blew out the car window is a flimsy excuse.
An example of a homograph for the word "invalid" is: "She received an invalid excuse from her brother." In this sentence, "invalid" is pronounced with the stress on the second syllable.
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.
when you use the word "excuse you" it means you offended the person and there upset
I was not privy to the details of the confidential meeting.