| His long wings beat slow, steady beats, as if accentuating the overall extenuation of the bird. |
| There is, perhaps, room for extenuation in the case of Wirz, an ineffectual martinet clearly out of his depth. |
| You heard him plead, in extenuation of his fault, his mode of life, his rearing. |
| Showing that some of those killed were even more bloodthirsty than their killers is no extenuation. |
| Many died of it every day, so that now all our extenuations abated. |
| They were clad in silken extenuations from the throat to the feet. |
