Example Sentences

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I’m fairly certain I’m not the only person who has excused herself to use the restroom, and returned to the table announcing, “You have to check out the bathroom!”

From Washington Times • Mar. 11, 2017

But Taylor Swift has excused herself from performing at the ceremony in LA.

From BBC • Feb. 7, 2015

Rightly or wrongly, artists have long been held to their own moral code; creative genius has excused a multitude of sins.

From New York Times • Feb. 5, 2014

Simon is handling the inquiry, as Sullivan has excused herself from doing so.

From Washington Post • Dec. 11, 2012

His going will seem quite natural when he has excused it as I have advised him to do.

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