Woolvey stammered a few equally transparent excuses as well, and they escaped at once together, stumbling in their haste to be away.

It was a rather transparent excuse; either the computer or T'Pel could have reminded Tuvok, if he'd been in a condition to listen.

The whole Monica thing was a transparent trumped-up excuse.

What remains upsetting is her transparent excuse of "if I knew then what I know now."

Some individuals choose to celebrate Christmas in July themselves, typically as an intentionally transparent excuse to have a party.

But it was a transparent excuse.

Rachel had kept him away by what she felt had become all too transparent excuses.

"And last Christmas morning as soon as I arrived at your house, he invented a lame, transparent excuse and left."

No callow pup like the Earl of Brant could deceive Gretchen Kinnderboom, especially with such a transparent excuse.

As transparent an excuse as any he'd seen, but he, too, thought having Basil aboard was a good idea.