Example Sentences

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She said last month that her upcoming travel does not mean she is excusing the hacking.

From Washington Times • Aug. 4, 2023

It is unfortunate that she is excusing your nephew’s behavior and being ungrateful for your generosity, but her character flaws are not your problem to remedy.

From Slate • Apr. 21, 2022

In just two seasons, Braun has slid seamlessly and un-self-consciously into Greg’s blundering fish-out-of-water rhythms, whether he is excusing the mispronunciation of his own name or stammering his way through a U.S.

From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2021

So you have that strain of law, which is excusing corporations from the responsibility that a normal human being would have if they had conducted themselves in the same way.

From Slate • Apr. 13, 2021

Sometimes when one is excusing himself he will use no in place of to; e.g., asu no, raiguat no, nando to noburu na 'don't spread around that it is tomorrow, next month, or whenever.'

From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Spear, Richard L.