How To Use Alibi In A Sentence

Scamp had an airtight alibi, naturally, but then again young Leakey never said who exactly had done it.
Note that there were the usual raft of excuses and alibis following the failures.
In Calingis eiusdem Indiæ gente quinquennes concipere foeminas, octauum vitæ annum non excedere, et alibi cauda villosa homines nasci pernicitatis eximiæ, alios auribus totos contegi. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Has arbores seu arbusta Balsami fecit quondam quidam de Caliphis Aegypti de loco Engaddi inter mare mortuum, et Ierico, vbi Domino volente excreuerat, eradicari, et in argo pr鎑icto plantari: est tamen hoc mirandum, quod vbicuncque alibi siue prope, siue remote plantantur, quamuis fort� virent, et exurgant, non tamen fructificant. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
It may be said that there is an evidentiary onus on an accused person in raising a defence of alibi.

You cannot question the truth of his alibi.
These sons have been alibied, to our knowledge.
He called the police the day after and admitted being at the scene but gave them a false alibi. The Sun
Now, you just told me that the sons had alibied themselves, yes or no? CNN Transcript May 23, 2006
Others suggested that he was at fault for trying to present an alibi defense.
On the 24th, the day that I was to have supposedly murdered Mrs. Stotler, the prosecutors themselves have alibied me, by collecting testimony.
He refused to provide an alibi for his son, who is wanted by police. Times, Sunday Times
He refused to provide an alibi for his son, who is wanted by police. Times, Sunday Times
After eight years in power, the government can no longer use the previous government's policy as an alibi for its own failure.
Add to that: vain, an inveterate breaker of promises, a gambler and a lover of alibis, and the picture becomes ever more confusing.
This conclusion is sufficient also to dispose of the complaint about redirection on the date of the alibi witness statements.
The detective pursues a stage magician with the perfect alibi. The Sun
Will she let the police know he has an alibi? The Sun
Police notes, which were withheld from the jury, gave him a potential alibi. Times, Sunday Times
Clever old fox, supplying him with what, normally, would be his alibi. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
He was interviewed by police but provided an alibi placing him at a party. The Sun
Others suggested that he was at fault for trying to present an alibi defense.
He gave evidence himself, and called evidence in support of his alibi.
After eight years in power, the government can no longer use the previous government's policy as an alibi for its own failure.
Even a white nationalist site like VDARE, with its squad of genetic racialists like Steve Sailer, gets alibied away as simply concerned about immigration. Archive 2009-10-01
Can we drop the alibi of ignorance - the endless insistence that we did not know - and resist the seductive lures of solipsism, of denial, of dissociation?
And there are the various motives and alibis, plausible and im-, all of which lead to the eventual solving of the crime. James Scarborough: Snooty and the Beast, All American Melodrama Theatre & Music Hall/Screaming Mimi!, Act Out Mystery Theatre
As it turned out, the letter was written on the managing editor's computer, but he has an alibi.
He's got the victim's blood on his jacket and he has no plausible alibi for the night of the murder. Times, Sunday Times
Inasmuch as their suspect was completely alibied for the Coffield murder, King County assumed the Bonner and Coffield murders were not part of a series. The Riverman
There is no need for an alibi to defend the colossal failure.
He had pulled off a big score recently, and with an airtight alibi he'd actually paid a couple of women to accompany him to Ibiza for a wild week while the heat died down.
He called alibi evidence as to his earlier movements.
Unless I am establishing an alibi or there are ghostly apparitions hovering next to me, I'm not too bothered at seeing pictures of myself somewhere, but of course I'm too polite to say anything.
Europe has always given him an alibi and that's what he's counting on yet again to stay in a job. The Sun
These guys will fall silent, then we'll be bombarded with a slew of alibis and lame excuses for their failure.
Did all the tenants have an alibi for the time of the burglary? The Sun
He wondered how he could check, let alone double-check, Lowery's alibi. THE BOOK LADY
It may help the police authenticate suspects' alibis, by tracking the whereabouts of their mobile phones.
He has apparently upset the police by claiming to have an alibi for a teenager accused of murder.
Salibi turned around and made a remark that everyone enjoyed and the tension dissipated. CHAMELEON
And there are the various motives and alibis, plausible and im-, all of which lead to the eventual solving of the crime. James Scarborough: Snooty and the Beast, All American Melodrama Theatre & Music Hall/Screaming Mimi!, Act Out Mystery Theatre
I snickered, snorted, and even laughed out loud as the vaunted pundits lied, alibied, and wriggled out of their share of responsibility for the mess in which our nation now finds itself. 1984, HERE WE COME!
Two women seemed anxious to provide Tate with an alibi, or to use him as an alibi for themselves.
The only alibi he can provide for the night of the murder is that he was being spanked by a tart in frilly knickers.
Thomson had an unshakable alibi - the rape had occurred when he was on TV, describing how people could improve their ability to remember faces.
He maintains that he has an alibi for the crucial times surrounding the murder.
Excuses, alibis and wild cover-up stories chased each other around Harry's brain, each more feeble than the last.
Clever old fox, supplying him with what, normally, would be his alibi. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
He appears to regard rights, a word that he usually encloses in shudder-quotes, as an alibi to advance material claims. Archive 2009-01-01
And his own Prime Minister Ivan Kostov's initial reaction was that of a criminal with a water-tight alibi: ‘Prove it!’
As we were steaming out of the Gambia I saw the commander of the Galibi on his bridge, in a state of violent excitement, with all his crew mustered before him, and appealing in the most vehement manner to his capitaine de riviere (river captain), the title borne by the chief of the negro crew. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville
Over the prison phone, he'd been coaching his alibi witness to commit perjury, so he had to explain the general setup inside a courtroom.
A man who provided a false alibi for an alleged attacker has been sent to jail for six months.
But analysis of soil in his trouser cuffs broke his alibi and clinched the case.
As we were steaming out of the Gambia I saw the commander of the Galibi on his bridge, in a state of violent excitement, with all his crew mustered before him, and appealing in the most vehement manner to his capitaine de riviere (river captain), the title borne by the chief of the negro crew. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville
So it ` s my understanding she had been alibied at the get - go. CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2008
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‘His alibi was totally unshakable,’ Burnett recalled recently.
Thus, the Caribbees of the Orinoco have been transformed into Galibi in Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
He had Keyes as an alibi, and the exact date and time of `my crime "indelibly tracked by the camcorder clock. SUMMER OF FEAR
If the homeowner of that building can provide an alibi, he or she can be exempt. Times, Sunday Times
Others suggested that Sherman was at fault for trying to present an alibi defense.
He's alibied out for the night Cruikshank's home was phoned from his line. Break No Bones
It may be said that there is an evidentiary onus on an accused person in raising a defence of alibi.
He has a solid alibi.
Allowing detainees to talk may give them a chance to create and coordinate alibis and to corroborate or concoct stories to frustrate questioning attempts.
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Illingworth siblings do not exude that air; certainly Duke has motives for crime, though his alibi seems airtight.
One of the players against whom an allegation was made, an England international, is understood to be claiming he has an alibi.
Another topic of discussion has developed concerning the man who alibied the husband.
Often, this actually causes substantial loses to the firm, alibied by saying that the "write-offs" are "short term" and the "restructuring" will lead to long term profitability. Archive 2007-07-01
The appellant never himself gave evidence to support the alibi.
On the other hand, he has to avoid the danger that the parties push all their difficult problems over to him so that they have an alibi for failure to achieve something.
The former husband emerged as the most promising suspect after the detectives were able to break his alibi.
He insisted on his innocence, but when it was discovered that he had tried to set up a false alibi, he was charged with the murder. Times, Sunday Times
He established an alibi to the charge of murder.
Has arbores seu arbusta Balsami fecit quondam quidam de Caliphis Aegypti de loco Engaddi inter mare mortuum, et Ierico, vbi Domino volente excreuerat, eradicari, et in argo prædicto plantari: est tamen hoc mirandum, quod vbicuncque alibi siue prope, siue remote plantantur, quamuis fortè virent, et exurgant, non tamen fructificant. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
Did all the tenants have an alibi for the time of the burglary? The Sun
The alibi at Westminster, in such situations, is that a disaffected member must stay, to represent his constituents.
The latter's alibi having established his innocence beyond doubt, no definite clues were forthcoming as yet, beyond the foot-prints, the horse, and the "Luger" shell. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police
Against this species of evidence no _alibi_ could be offered, because it was admitted, as we have said elsewhere, that the real persons of the accused were not there present; and everything rested upon the assumption that the afflicted persons were telling the truth, since their evidence could not be redargued. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
In a state of anaesthesis, it would obey or command a calculable program without affect or auto-affection, like an indifferent automaton” (Without Alibi, p. 73). Jacques Derrida
Or just use it as the perfect alibi when life gets the better of you. The Sun
It is remarkable enough, that the name mani, which Aublet heard among the Galibis* of Cayenne, was again heard by us at Javita, three hundred leagues distant from French Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
a watertight alibi
A picnic provides a decent alibi. Times, Sunday Times
For the best of us, the study of the arts, a taste for old things, collections, gardens are all mere ersatz, succedanea, alibis. The Guermantes Way
At times it seems like he really is cross-examining him on just about every aspect of his alibi and why he told the lies he did.
The videotape would have been useful to establish alibis for the defendants.
In "the Galibi language of Brazil, _tigami_ signifies 'young brother, son, and little child,' indiscriminately. The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day
Europe has always given him an alibi and that's what he's counting on yet again to stay in a job. The Sun
every day he had a new alibi for not getting a job
In the circumstances, his evidence as alibi evidence is most unpromising.
She made a statement to the police, giving Iftikhar a false alibi.
His alibi would not have withstood cross - examination .
By a donnish performance, more in the style of a school of philosophy than of an economics department, he proved the case for tax cuts, then forged an intellectual alibi for funking its implementation.
Until this spring when he told manager Phil Garner, he offered no alibis, accepted the criticism without complaint, and did the best he could with what he had.
Excuses and alibis are manifestations of the disease and are to be expected; however, facts presented by the suspected nurse should be considered.
In Calingis eiusdem Indi� gente quinquennes concipere foeminas, octauum vit� annum non excedere, et alibi cauda villosa homines nasci pernicitatis eximi�, alios auribus totos contegi. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
It also provides an alibi for the failure of contemporary leaders to create a postimperial version of the ecumenical state. The Great Experiment
He called the police the day after and admitted being at the scene but gave them a false alibi. The Sun
The second alibi, the Mongol invasion, is yet another favourite of their writing.
I think we are looking possibly a family member, yes, alibied, but alibied how well? CNN Transcript May 23, 2006
The police are suspicious of his alibi because he already has a record.
The charge arose out of the fact that Miss Wan gave a witness statement to the police in which she provided a false alibi for Iftikhar.
It also has to be clear that the accused has been told of the evidence against him so that if he has an alibi he can use it.
That is his alibi and excuse for doing absolutely nothing apart from parking himself into a limousine and taking his pay.
The next day my pal reluctantly agreed to give me an alibi in case my boyfriend got suspicious. The Sun
At times, it sounds like she is cross-examining him, although sometimes she is acknowledging she does have some fears about his alibis.
Stamp had alibis for June 1 and 2 — Wynne had taken a two-day "sickie" in order to "make him look for a job" — and June 3 was his first opportunity to visit Grace. Disordered Minds
The commander of the Galibi, who wanted to escort me, had manned a boat and rigged out his men for the nonce in smart striped shirts and red caps. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville
This is clear to see on page 41 of the originating judgment where the trial judge relied on that alibi which Mr Smith now concedes is not true.
His apology for the production of ignorant students consists of the same bunch of alibis and rationalizations we've been fed by education professors for decades.
Do you have any proof to substantiate your alibi?
By a donnish performance, more in the style of a school of philosophy than of an economics department, Letwin proved the case for tax cuts, then forged an intellectual alibi for funking its implementation.
As it became clear that the DNA evidence was likely to be accepted, I wondered what new evidence would damage the alibi.
Moral virtues were a cunningly indirect alibi for modish economic vices.
He suggests that the Balestreros find proof-positive alibis for their whereabouts during all of the robberies Manny has been accused of committing.
The question is how, considering that both boys have watertight alibis.
He insisted on his innocence, but when it was discovered that he had tried to set up a false alibi, he was charged with the murder. Times, Sunday Times
(Galibi) reptiles: arrau (Maipure), jacare (Tupí), matamata (Tupí) insects: chigoe (Cariban), sauba (Tupi), pinacate (Nahuatl) beverages: cassiri (Carib), guarana (Tupí), sotol (Nahuatl) VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3
He's got the victim's blood on his jacket and he has no plausible alibi for the night of the murder. Times, Sunday Times
If the homeowner of that building can provide an alibi, he or she can be exempt. Times, Sunday Times
But the Party does not provide him with an alibi for all his failures.
We steamed along between two walls of green, and our only excitement as we went was to watch the numerous hippopotami, who seemed very much put out by the passing of the Galibi. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville
We all knew of the FO's Arabist bent, and imagined impossibly languid public schoolboys, besotted with T.E. Lawrence and Arab boys, and hating everything Jewish (alibied as anti-Zionism). On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
At Goree I embarked on board the colonial despatch boat Galibi to inspect our stations on the Gambia and the Cazamanze. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville
The police broke her alibi by proving she knew how to shoot a pistol.
After eight years in power, the government can no longer use the previous government's policy as an alibi for its own failure.
John was ruled out as a possible suspect because he had a strong alibi
You cannot question the truth of his alibi.
She could wind up treating you more like an alibi than an amigo!
He had Keyes as an alibi, and the exact date and time of `my crime "indelibly tracked by the camcorder clock. SUMMER OF FEAR
After all, and especially if you live alone, how often would you have a verifiable alibi? THE UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI MOSS
Also, could new evidence undermine the original alibi?
It also has to be clear that the accused has been told of the evidence against him so that if he has an alibi he can use it.
He was interviewed by police but provided an alibi placing him at a party. The Sun
a protecting alibi
In the closing titles it reported that a woman had come forward after his execution to confirm his alibi, although by then it was too late.
His alibi turns out to have been provided, in all innocence, by his twin!
The videotape would have been useful to establish alibis for the defendants.
Low turnout and the febrile atmosphere may provide him with an alibi, but the humiliation will be great. Times, Sunday Times
But the time is long past for such absurd mythology, which has provided a perennial alibi for those who connived in the destruction of the mining industry.
Kamara then claimed an alibi, that he was at a school with his sister and the Headmaster.
We love to make excuses and believe alibis, however unlikely.
The detective pursues a stage magician with the perfect alibi. The Sun
Mr Lydon claims he has an alibi to disprove Mr Dunlop's allegations as he was a guest speaker at a conference hosted by the IACT.
His whole case was based upon what he testified in the witness box and three alibi witnesses.
`That your father is now the one person with an ironclad alibi for the time of Joanne Short's death. THE UNORTHODOX MURDER OF RABBI MOSS
There are no excuses, no alibis and no grounds for recourse.
Salibi had tried to sever all ties to Cartagena but Arguello wouldn't let him. CHAMELEON
The detective pursues a stage magician with the perfect alibi. The Sun
The police broke her alibi by proving she knew how to shoot a pistol.
Yet the unionists still cannot come to the party, and with mind-numbing dumbness some parts of the media and the political establishment seek to provide them with alibis for their abject failure.
Et sciatis quòd tam hic quam alibi mare apparet satis altius suo littore, imo qui a remotis aspicit videt suspensum quasi ad nubes. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
An alibi for male power and domination? Times, Sunday Times
Ashamed, he tried to cover the incidents up, even ordering his representatives to publicly alibi his wife's violence.
Salibi had tried to sever all ties to Cartagena but Arguello wouldn't let him. CHAMELEON
He claims an alibi for this morning - counseling sessions.
But she and the label differed over the new project. record producer, "says Lynne, who produced" Tears, Lies, and Alibis "herself," and looking for songs that they understand, and my singing about Airstreams (mobile campers, in ' The People's News Portal - Business, Money, Sport, Music, Forex, Auto
Plus if I got home in time I had the best possible alibi inasmuch as I was home in bed all night with my wife. BETTER THAN THIS
Cops didn't check his mobile phone which proved his alibi was true. The Sun
The false alibi threw the police off the scent.
Or you mean Nolans but Volans, an alibi, do you Mutemalice, suffering unegoistically from the singular but positively enjoying on the plural? Finnegans Wake
Within a quarter of a mile is the sweete spaw or Chalibiet, a Spring which rises off Iron and steele like Astrup or Tunbridge and Like the German Spaw. Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary
He established an alibi to the charge of murder.
His party already has its alibis lined up.
He had, in fact, a perfect alibi. Times, Sunday Times
Her alibi, offered by her apologists, is that she was starved of affection - a euphemism for sex.
Item volumus, ordinamus, & statuimus, quod in qualibet villa mercatoria & feria regni nostri pr鎑icti & alibi infra potestatem nostram pondus nostrum in certo loco ponatur & ante ponderationem statera in presentia emptoris & venditoris vacua videatur & qu騞 brachia sint equalia & ex tunc ponderator ponderet in 鎞uali. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Austin: hoc dixi, ne quis existimet habitare ibimala daemonia ubi Solem et Lunam et Stellas Deus ordinavit, et alibi nemo arbitraretur Daemonom coelis habitare cum Angelis suis unde lapsum credimus. Anatomy of Melancholy
The accused had thrown dust in the eyes of the police by giving them a false alibi.
The prosecution alleges she gave him a false alibi by claiming she was in Soham on the day the girls died, when she was really in Grimsby.
The problem is the advocates can't talk to the defendants, and have no way of finding out if they have alibis or innocent explanations for apparently suspicious behavior.
The next day my pal reluctantly agreed to give me an alibi in case my boyfriend got suspicious. The Sun
He was arrested then released when the police couldn't break his alibi.
The moment we get into murky decision-making processes, everybody has an alibi.
The DRC's Foreign Minister, Antoine Mangalibi, subbed for Kabila.
So now we have retroactive aviophobia, right up there with "excited delirium" as a new medical alibi for police brutality. posted by Dr. WHITEWASH!
Cops didn't check his mobile phone which proved his alibi was true. The Sun
Caribbees of the Orinoco have been transformed into Galibi in French Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
Against this species of evidence no alibi could be offered, because it was admitted, as we have said elsewhere, that the real persons of the accused were not there present; and everything rested upon the assumption that the afflicted persons were telling the truth, since their evidence could not be redargued. Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
From the word Carina, or Calina, has been formed Galibi Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
From the word Carina, or Calina, has been formed Galibi (Caribi). Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3
Salibi turned around and made a remark that everyone enjoyed and the tension dissipated. CHAMELEON
We had a couple of suspicious characters but their alibis are watertight.
A picnic provides a decent alibi. Times, Sunday Times
Low turnout and the febrile atmosphere may provide him with an alibi, but the humiliation will be great. Times, Sunday Times
Her crime was to provide a false alibi for her wretched lover.
It is like two wise guys in police interrogation; the best way to trip them up about their alibis is to get them in separate rooms talking on their own, and then compare the two stories for discrepancies.
What is the evidence that established that, other than the evidence of the alibi, ultimately said to be false?
Nor did he review his alibi in any detail.
The moment we get into murky decision-making processes, everybody has an alibi.
If our Alfonsia oleifera belong to the genus Elais (as Brown, with great reason believes), it follows, that in the same genus the oil is found in the sarcocarp and in the perisperm.] [* The Galibis or Caribis (the r has been changed into l, as often happens) are of the great stock of the Carib nations. Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America
He has apparently upset the police by claiming to have an alibi for a teenager accused of murder.
break an alibi
Otherwise, doubts would remain that such steps were aimed at providing an alibi for a possible failure of the bid, he said.
She harried the detective constable who was checking Christine Mills' alibis.
Several nature reserves (IUCN category IV) occur within these swamp forest including Galibi, Wia Wia, Peruvia, Boven Coesewijne, Copi, and Wane kreek. Paramaribo swamp forests

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