For which they, had ample excuse.

That in itself was ample excuse for the existence of his dive.

Coyle still found ample excuses to be absent from home in the evenings without arousing Jane's suspicions.

I must have overslept but there was ample excuse for it.

This whole thing about your son is not an ample excuse for you being gone as long as you were.

They had certainly quarreled enough since he had arrived to provide ample excuse for his ill humor.

A good food festival providing ample excuse to sample real ales.

That irritated him, though he'd certainly had ample excuse, but he was back on balance now, and he sized her up carefully.

The rains pounded the area for a week, providing him ample excuse.

The killings gave the congress ample excuse to withdraw from negotiations that were bogged down anyway, and to put the onus on Mr. de Klerk.