They are my only excuse for having lived in it so long.

Poker is the only excuse that would carry any weight with it.

This is my only excuse for troubling you at the present time.

My only excuse was that I'd been eighteen when my father died.

This is the only excuse even a bright man can think of.

His only excuse was that he had been thinking of other things.

Your story had set me on fire, and that's my only excuse.

The only excuse he ever made is to be found in the sonnet-line:

Indeed it is the only excuse they ever seem to offer.

His only excuse was those monsters-thosechanged men-hadnever been consistent.

The only excuse I could offer would only make the offence still greater.

That was the only excuse he could think of for leaving the cab.

The only excuse I can offer is that I really was not well.

To the artistic temperament, enthusiasm is the only excuse for existence.

And I will say this for you, that the only excuse you have-

For him, eating was the one and only excuse for existing.