1.   It was a lame excuse, and I bluntly told him that he owed it to posterity to relate his story.

2.   She gave some lame excuse about missing the bus.

3.   Every time she asked for her money back they kept putting her ojf with some lame excuse or other.

4.   He mumbled some lame excuse about having gone to sleep.

5.   What a lame excuse for an opposite.

6.   It sounds a lame excuse, I know, but I never seem to be able to find the time.

7.   A lot of Americans come up with lame excuses for not going to the polls on Election Day.

8.   But that was immediately dismissed by all as a lame excuse.

9.   Come to think of it, that fancy fountain was far more entertain ing than this lame excuse for a science fiction thriller.

10.   Critics call that a lame excuse.