How to Use inexcusable in a Sentence

inexcusable

adjective
  • Yes, but: Even after the inexcusable loss, the 4-3 team is still in the playoff hunt.
    Justin Kaufmann, Axios, 28 Oct. 2024
  • This is not only inexcusable in Sunja’s mind but also impossible.
    Rafaela Bassili, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Combs quickly acknowledged and apologized for the beating, saying his actions were inexcusable.
    Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2024
  • The other one is inexcusable, the one that J.K. spins on, the ball pops out.
    Stephen Means, cleveland.com, 3 Sep. 2019
  • George Floyd’s death is a tragedy in a long line of inexcusable tragedies.
    Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 5 June 2020
  • The list of ways in which this loss was inexcusable for Taggart is lengthy.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • For a coach as good as Franklin, this stuff is inexcusable.
    Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 26 Oct. 2020
  • And the interception near the end of the first half was inexcusable.
    Bob Condotta, The Seattle Times, 10 Dec. 2018
  • Putting leaves and dead plants in bags and sending them to the landfill is inexcusable.
    Howard Garrett, Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Songs are butchered, with an inexcusable amount of bum notes and out-of-step harmonies.
    Christopher Arnott, courant.com, 10 June 2019
  • And the fact that Otto was alone, all that time, with no one to comfort him, is inexcusable.
    chicagotribune.com, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The effort 20 years ago to somehow explain the inexcusable was doomed from the start.
    Charles Desmarais, San Francisco Chronicle, 27 Feb. 2018
  • How many Aly Raismans and Michael Phelpses just couldn't fight their way to the top of this mountain of inexcusable garbage?
    Sally Jenkins, chicagotribune.com, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Missing them in the Super Bowl, in one half of play, is inexcusable.
    Peter King, SI.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • The breach, as Foster saw it, of the papal duty to teach was inexcusable.
    Nicholas Frankovich, National Review, 2 Jan. 2021
  • Sure the Chargers won, but the decision to go for it on their own 24-yard line was inexcusable.
    Los Angeles Times, 30 Sep. 2023
  • 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
  • Out of the 10 penalties for which ASU was called, seven were false start penalties, which is inexcusable in the 11th game of the season.
    Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 22 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
  • That wasn’t the case, however, because of an inexcusable lapse of judgement that led to an uphill climb the rest of the game.
    Dane Mizutani, Twin Cities, 12 May 2024
  • Those penalties are inexcusable and need to be cleaned up.
    Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 28 Oct. 2019
  • The swing at Rudolph was inexcusable, and so was the act of a turning the best win, for what might be the best team since the Browns returned in 1999, into an afterthought.
    Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 15 Nov. 2019
  • For someone that works at a recipe-focused food brand, that’s kind of inexcusable.
    Alex Delany, Bon Appétit, 7 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • But an inexcusable false start by guard Matt Pryor pushed it back to a 64-yard attempt.
    Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Vikings are 1-4 at home this season, and two of the losses - to Atlanta and Dallas - are inexcusable.
    Jim Souhan, Star Tribune, 29 Nov. 2020
  • That’s inexcusable for a healthy team that has rare continuity in the pass game.
    Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 15 Oct. 2017
  • But the lapse in judgement by Douglas — and his carelessness with the ball — was inexcusable.
    Rob Reischel, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022

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