How to Use inexcusable in a Sentence

inexcusable

adjective
  • What Trump did is inexcusable and should be called out as such.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, AZCentral.com, 6 Feb. 2026
  • George Floyd’s death is a tragedy in a long line of inexcusable tragedies.
    — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 5 June 2020
  • Missing a team flight is inexcusable if you’re cleared to play.
    — Mike D. Sykes, For The Win, 23 Jan. 2025
  • Songs are butchered, with an inexcusable amount of bum notes and out-of-step harmonies.
    — Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 10 June 2019
  • The list of ways in which this loss was inexcusable for Taggart is lengthy.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2019
  • Putting leaves and dead plants in bags and sending them to the landfill is inexcusable.
    — Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Jones is a good player who had a bad night, but that was an inexcusable effort, or lack of it.
    — Chad Finn, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Dec. 2022
  • And even if the results aren’t there, efforts like this on home ice are inexcusable.
    — Thomas Drance, The Athletic, 15 Dec. 2024
  • For your parents to have promised help and reneged is inexcusable.
    — Abigail Van Buren, Houston Chronicle, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Both calls were ridiculous, inexcusable, and this sort of thing just can’t happen.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 18 May 2018
  • This feels much more inexcusable.
    — Jay Harris, New York Times, 21 Aug. 2025
  • Coming out of a timeout with the game on the line, that type of inexcusable breakdown falls on the coach.
    — Ben Golliver, SI.com, 11 May 2018
  • Leaving an unpadded metal roller on the edge of the field is inexcusable.
    — Noah Camras, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 May 2025
  • What Trevor did in the first episode where Abby shows up is kind is inexcusable.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2025
  • That’s inexcusable for a healthy team that has rare continuity in the pass game.
    — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Oct. 2017
  • If Dallas’ claim to fame is its forward depth, those kinds of slumps are inexcusable.
    — Dom Luszczyszyn, The Athletic, 10 Jan. 2025
  • And the fact that Otto was alone, all that time, with no one to comfort him, is inexcusable.
    — chicagotribune.com, 26 Sep. 2017
  • But the four losses to egregious tankers were inexcusable.
    — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Skipping that view may seem like an inexcusable oversight.
    — New York Times, 16 Mar. 2026
  • And the interception near the end of the first half was inexcusable.
    — Bob Condotta, The Seattle Times, 10 Dec. 2018
  • These technical issues are inexcusable and take us out of the games!
    — Jhaan Elker, Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2022
  • Two conduct calls and one lining up in the neutral zone which, by the way, is the most inexcusable flag in the game.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 23 Nov. 2021
  • As these things tend to go, this was only the tip of the iceberg in terms of inexcusable behavior.
    — Emilia Petrarca, The Cut, 24 Jan. 2018
  • My actions last night were distasteful and inexcusable, and there is no place for it in the game of soccer.
    — Pioneer Press, Twin Cities, 10 Aug. 2019
  • Playoff droughts like the one the team went through over the previous four seasons have gone from the norm to inexcusable.
    — Sahadev Sharma, New York Times, 30 May 2025
  • My having to sit out of yesterday's game makes my actions even more inexcusable.
    — James Brizuela, MSNBC Newsweek, 24 Nov. 2025
  • The breach, as Foster saw it, of the papal duty to teach was inexcusable.
    — Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 2 Jan. 2021
  • Missing them in the Super Bowl, in one half of play, is inexcusable.
    — Peter King, SI.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • My having to sit out yesterday's game makes my actions even more inexcusable.
    — CBS News, 25 Nov. 2025
  • My having to sit out yesterday’s game makes my actions even more inexcusable.
    — Scott Thompson, FOXNews.com, 25 Nov. 2025

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