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Example sentences for "apology"

Lexicographically close words:
apologized; apologizes; apologizing; apologue; apologues; apon; apone; aponeurosis; aponeurotic; apoot
  1. The thought was a new apology for his transgression; she could not but defy her conscience, and look indulgently on the evil which had borne such fruit.

  2. The letter began with apology for long delay in acknowledging two communications.

  3. Buckland came up and made an apology for drawing his friend aside.

  4. His air of laughing apology was very pleasant.

  5. An apology which he sent to the Lords was ordered to be burnt by the common hangman.

  6. He had long since made ample apology to Dora for his offense and there had been no further outbreak from him of which to complain.

  7. My enthusiasm runs away with me when I get upon this subject," said McArthur, in blushing apology to the group.

  8. Christians have obtained protection, and defence is becoming didactic: apology is expiring in instruction: all that is now needed for the spread of Christianity is, that its nature should be understood.

  9. If Cyril marks the apology of the Alexandrian church at the commencement of the fifth century, Augustin similarly exhibits that of the African in presence of the new woes which were bursting upon the world.

  10. This phase of the contest is seen in the New Testament, in the Apology of Justin Martyr against Trypho, to which a new kind of objection expressive of prejudice is added in the discourse which Celsus, as preserved in Origen (Contr.

  11. His apology marks the transitionary time when Christianity was becoming the religion of the Roman world, and men hesitated as to its truth, looking back with regret to the past, with uneasiness to the future.

  12. The apology or defence of Christianity against Pagans commences with the apostolic age.

  13. Syrian, Alexandrian, Roman, or African; with the view of witnessing at once the alteration in the attack and the character of the apology which existed in different countries at one and the same time.

  14. Watson’s Apology for the Bible was a reply to Paine (1796).

  15. The political faults or shortcomings of the church are no apology for the infidelity of France; but they must be taken into account in explaining its intensity.

  16. Apology for Christianity not Mysterious 1697, and also a letter from Mr. Molyneux to Locke (Locke’s Works, ed.

  17. Watson’s Apology for Christianity was a reply to Gibbon, 1776.

  18. Woodham, in the preface to his edition of Tertullian’s Apology (1843), has made some very suggestive remarks.

  19. Every apology is, however, due to the reader, for the hasty and imperfect execution of the plates.

  20. Graver apology is necessary for an apparently graver fault.

  21. Its first apology for itself, made in a hurry, sounds marvellously like the Greek one, and highly dubious.

  22. The next morning you arise betimes and make the same request; you say you want your bill immediately, to which the same answer is given with an apology for its not having been done the night before.

  23. I know one tenant who, dissatisfied with an agent's apology for serious and unreasonable raising of his rent, determined to see the duke himself.

  24. I feel that I owe my race an apology for having somewhat deserted them.

  25. This preface must have been written before the work was finished, for at the conclusion of the historical part there is only an apology for the non-appearance of the supplement here alluded to.

  26. For my part, I confess, had I seen things in this view at first, the public had never been troubled either with my writings, or with this apology for them.

  27. The other, that this piece was only a general discourse of poetry; whereas it was an apology for the poets, in order to render Augustus more their patron.

  28. I am delighted by your apology for not having called on me after I had taken my leave of you the day before; but you can make an unnecessary apology as agreeable as any other act of kindness.

  29. MY DEAR SIR, I am quite sure, that upon the business I am upon now every line will be acceptable, and I therefore make no apology for this hurried despatch.

  30. But the only apology I make to myself is, that one does not wish to think so ill of human nature.

  31. Make no apology for sending me anything to read or revise.

  32. Whatever be the necessity, there can be no apology for outraging all bienséance.

  33. Quadratus lived about seventy years after the ascension, and presented his apology to the Emperor Adrian.

  34. Apollonius, who suffered martyrdom under the emperor Commodus, composed an apology for his faith which he read in the senate, and which was afterwards published.

  35. Paris, 1854) is a weak, half-hearted apology for Clement XIV.

  36. Propositions or the apology for the King's attack upon Brentford) in the published History, Rushworth's Collections, E.

  37. Too great goodnature was indeed her only apology for being still at fifty-five, what people of the world emphatically call young!

  38. At all events, I accepted his half-apology on the ground of great fatigue, and agreed to dine with him.

  39. What really aggravates her conduct, too, was the kind of apology she subsequently made to me in my own room.

  40. My first care on waking, however, was to despatch a very humble apology by the waiter for my noisy conduct on the previous evening, and a very sincere hope that the Countess had not suffered on account of it.

  41. Benita felt that the words were an apology for the past, and her heart was touched.

  42. Indeed, it was past midday when at length they began to enter what by apology might be called the town of Bambatse.

  43. If any good result could be secured by carrying the burden of your business into all your life, then there would be some apology for it; but you know that no such result can be secured.

  44. They are a large and most respectable class of people, and their apology must be found in the theory I have advanced; yet among these may be found men and women who will require all the amplitude of our mantles of charity to cover them.

  45. So, if there be a special Providence, it is a Providence to be trusted; and the man who believes in it has no apology for carrying a single unnecessary burden.

  46. Nay, if any apology is needed it is from me to you for having apparently given you cause for uneasiness; but, thank God!

  47. Queenie, there is no need of apology on either side.

  48. You wouldn't know what tomfoolery I mightn't--" The apology broke off abruptly.

  49. To "Young Wilson" and The Unreliable (as we have wickedly termed them), we feel that no apology we can make begins to atone for the many insults we have given them.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "apology" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    acknowledgment; alibi; apologetics; apology; argument; bickering; blind; casuistry; cloak; color; confession; contention; contrition; controversy; cover; defense; device; dispute; excuse; facade; feint; front; gloss; guise; handle; hassle; hubbub; litigation; mask; penance; penitence; plea; polemic; pretense; pretension; protestation; reason; reformation; refuge; regret; repentance; rhubarb; screen; semblance; sham; show; stratagem; subterfuge; trick; varnish; veil; wrangling