“She smiles understandingly at my apology and takes my hand, easing my guilt.”

“A standard apology for corruption is that it can be found anywhere, under all systems of government.”

“The host of the dilapidated motel then showed us to our poor apology of a room.”

“Perhaps he is wary of appearing to be an apologist in the eyes of his western readers.”

“The infuriated cannot forgive the apologist.”

“He is, for example, an ardent apologist for Robert E. Lee, regarding him and other Confederates as American heroes.”

“He is a pathological apologizer.”

“The landlady asked with plaintive apologeticness if they could make a shade less noise. The hour was late. Some guests on the upper floor suffered from insomnia.”

“In the Apologie, Pascal shows the man without grace to be an incomprehensible mixture of greatness and abjectness, incapable of truth or of reaching the supreme good to which his nature nevertheless aspires.”

“To him she hasted, in her face excuse Came Prologue, and Apologie to prompt, Which with bland words at will she thus addrest.”

“Ok, apols if this is the sort of thing that gets discussed a lot here, I don't come in much.”

“Apols if I'm being petulant, but I'm still cross with him for blocking me on Twitter.”

“Apols to all those to whom I said exactly the same thing a couple of days ago.”

“My profoundest apologies for not updating for such an abominably long time.”

“If you are out there, Mac, and in touch with your friends, please put me out of my misery and convey my heartfelt apologies to Miss Whatshername?”

“I returned from Siberia to a mountain of furious letters to which I could only write abject apologies.”

“Those are my passions and, not infrequently, their proponents and apologists will be my targets.”

“Studies in English were produced either by apologists, sensationalists or conspiracy theorists.”

“The Soviet Union's ideology had many adherents and apologists throughout the West.”