How to Use blame in a Sentence
- I blame the poor harvest on the weather.
- My father always blames everything on me.
- Don't blame me. You are responsible for your own problems.
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The swiftness of the campaign’s about-face may be to blame.
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Paige Hagy,
Fortune,
4 Nov. 2023
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And in western New York, the icy weather was blamed for three deaths in three days.
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Jonathan Mattise,
arkansasonline.com,
19 Jan. 2024
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But Jordyn is not to be blamed for the breakup of my family.
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Chelsey Sanchez,
Harper's BAZAAR,
17 July 2023
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Gang violence is still blamed for much of the bloodshed.
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Libor Jany,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Oct. 2023
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Harry Litman: Trump could try to blame his lawyers for Jan. 6.
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Ryan Fonseca,
Los Angeles Times,
15 Nov. 2023
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Someone had to be blamed for killing the Minotaur, so the labyrinth builder, Daedelus, and his son Icarus were imprisoned.
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Dina Kaur,
The Arizona Republic,
5 Jan. 2024
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These are often to blame for the loss of livelihood and poverty that make the journey north seem worthwhile.
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Ned Temko,
The Christian Science Monitor,
28 Sep. 2023
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At the time, pundits blamed older voters who didn’t want to vote for a gay love story.
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Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
7 Mar. 2024
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Many blamed rising input costs on their own price hikes.
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Ryan Hogg,
Fortune Europe,
8 Dec. 2023
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On the contrary: Voters blame Biden for high food prices and interest rates.
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Matthew Continetti,
National Review,
24 Feb. 2024
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Putin has blamed Israel and the United States for the latest Hamas terror attack.
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Joel Gehrke,
Washington Examiner,
12 Oct. 2023
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Several of them hustled over to Fox Business to blame Biden for the downgrade.
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Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
8 Aug. 2023
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The easiest thing to do in politics is to blame someone else.
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Madison Burinsky,
ABC News,
7 Jan. 2024
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The shift for Peck comes as some people close to the campaign blame her for the campaign's current struggles and stagnation in the polls.
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Rachel Scott,
ABC News,
8 Aug. 2023
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Worse, folks tended to blame themselves for being scammed.
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Ben McKenzie,
Rolling Stone,
17 July 2023
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Loss of habitats, the rising use of pesticides on farms, and, yes, climate change—these are among the factors to blame.
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WIRED,
20 June 2023
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Authorities are investigating both the cause of the fire and whether the blaze is to blame for the woman’s death.
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Howard Koplowitz | Hkoplowitz@al.com,
al,
7 June 2023
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And some people with bad outcomes are looking for somebody to blame.
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Annabelle Timsit,
Washington Post,
18 Aug. 2023
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Most of the time, however, your external sphincter is to blame.
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Julia Ries,
SELF,
12 Feb. 2024
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Ivey blamed the failures on appeals filed by death row inmates.
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Mike Cason | McAson@al.com,
al,
17 June 2023
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Beth blames the fact that her childhood wasn’t as brutal as some of the authors who wrote more successful tell-alls.
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Odie Henderson,
BostonGlobe.com,
25 May 2023
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But Stafford, 35, was not entirely to blame for defeats to the San Francisco 49ers and Bengals.
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Gary Klein,
Los Angeles Times,
29 Sep. 2023
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Kyle McCord has not been sacked, and of the two taken by Devin Brown, at least one could be blamed on the quarterback’s decision.
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Nathan Baird,
cleveland,
13 Sep. 2023
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Anyone who has followed the fate of the TV business in recent years could not be blamed for thinking the medium is dying.
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Stephen Battaglio,
Los Angeles Times,
16 Jan. 2024
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Prigozhin later died in a midair explosion in Russia that the United States and others blamed on the Kremlin.
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Michael Birnbaum,
Washington Post,
10 Oct. 2023
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Rather than blame her — because the onus is on both of you as to how your relationship plays out — speak to her without judgment.
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Harriette Cole,
The Mercury News,
24 Feb. 2024
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During the opening monologue, Koy went off-script and blamed his short preparation time.
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Charna Flam,
Peoplemag,
9 Jan. 2024
- It's not entirely his fault, but he's not completely free of blame, either.
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This places the blame on the system, not the physicians.
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Aaron Rothstein,
wsj.com,
3 Apr. 2023
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Most of the blame can be placed on the hominins and their stone tools.
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Tim Newcomb,
Popular Mechanics,
14 July 2023
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As to the strike’s length, Schultz put the blame squarely on the studios.
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Pamela Chelin,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Nov. 2023
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Carey, who went down with his ship, received most of the blame for the tragedy.
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Erica Westly,
Smithsonian Magazine,
7 Dec. 2023
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But the basic idea is to shift the blame from the perfume to the reaction.
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Jacobina Martin,
Washington Post,
11 Oct. 2023
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In a statement, Franke’s lawyers laid most of the blame on Hildebrandt.
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Vulture,
27 Dec. 2023
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Although our poll shows Biden would get the blame for that as well.
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ABC News,
24 Sep. 2023
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If the economy tanks in the months ahead, Powell will get the blame.
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Alvaro Vargas Llosa,
Fortune,
9 May 2023
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Smart will shoulder some of the blame but Tatum and Jaylen Brown also shrank in the moment.
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Gary Washburn,
BostonGlobe.com,
26 Apr. 2023
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Of these, much of the blame falls on the brown recluse, a somewhat drab, venomous spider native to parts of the U.S.
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Anna Nordseth,
Discover Magazine,
27 July 2023
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Don't want to put the blame on any shot or any one play certainly.
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Bob Holt,
arkansasonline.com,
10 Mar. 2024
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Netanyahu may not bear direct blame for the WCK deaths.
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Bret Stephens,
The Mercury News,
11 Apr. 2024
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Even Barry got a quick death, but Cousineau took all the blame and is rotting in prison.
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Brian Hiatt,
Rolling Stone,
29 May 2023
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Sure, Durbin’s point that Republicans are the main source of blame here is good and fine.
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Prem Thakker,
The New Republic,
4 May 2023
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First, there are the Republicans, for whom the lion’s share of the blame must be reserved.
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Charles C. W. Cooke,
National Review,
12 Oct. 2023
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Out on the ocean, when the group realizes that not all the testing equipment was brought, blame is not cast.
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Sara Miller Llana,
The Christian Science Monitor,
11 Dec. 2023
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Biden has sought to lay the blame for high prices at grocery stores at the feet of corporations.
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Paolo Confino,
Fortune,
2 Feb. 2024
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China got the credit for driving the sector’s rally, and now the blame for the pullback.
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Ksenia Galouchko,
Fortune,
4 June 2023
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The White House is getting more blame than credit for the economy these days.
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Matt Egan,
CNN,
25 Sep. 2023
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Maybe the blame should more properly be leveled against the rear seat itself.
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Patrick Bedard,
Car and Driver,
16 Apr. 2023
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Both remain hurt over the blame their team shouldered for decades after the program was shut down.
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Joe Drape,
New York Times,
30 Mar. 2024
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There was plenty of blame to go around in the Angels’ 11-8 loss to the lowly Kansas City Royals.
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Sarah Valenzuela,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2023
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But people being people, are really quick to put the blame on the dog.
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Caroline Feller-Howard,
ABC News,
17 Nov. 2023
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Coaches will tell you that quarterbacks get too much praise and too much blame.
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Joseph Hoyt,
Dallas News,
28 Aug. 2023
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DeSantis did not assign blame on the vague laws that have driven many of the challenges.
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Ana Ceballos,
Miami Herald,
15 Feb. 2024
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And the only place Huggins should lay blame is the person staring at him in the mirror every day.
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Dan Wolken,
USA TODAY,
11 July 2023
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Don’t for a second accept your in-laws’ sorry attempt to pass the blame onto you.
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Carolyn Hax,
Washington Post,
9 June 2023
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Both Trump and NeverTrump will, in fact, rightfully bear the blame, but the country will be worse off as a result.
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Charles C. W. Cooke,
National Review,
2 Nov. 2023
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Chamberlain, because of his massive size, often took the brunt of the blame for the losses to the Celtics by the Warriors, 76ers, and Lakers.
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Gary Washburn,
BostonGlobe.com,
22 July 2023
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