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How to use the word blame in a Sentence?

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We are quick to blame God for the chaos we create, forgetting that we hold the reins. Like two-headed vipers, we look for scapegoats, but the fault is in us. Our mess is of our making, and only through accountability can we find clarity and change.

Christen Kuikoua

added by anonymous
12 days ago

Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims.

Susan Sontag

added by JokerGem
26 days ago

You can’t blame someone if they honestly don’t understand that their reality isn’t the same as yours.

Jodi Picoult

added by JokerGem
2 months ago

For Black is not a curse, nor source of shame, It’s a Colour that should Be worn with pride. For all the trashes of this world to blame, We rise determined, our beauty to proclaim.

Christen Kuikoua

added by anonymous
4 months ago

A dream is an empty imagination, a goal is an empty will, the best thing is that today is better than yesterday, and you are on the path of eternal spiritual development. In order not to blame others later, fate, God, life, dreams and goals must be believable and realistic.

Narsha Bulgakbaev

added by nbulgakbaev
4 months ago

We have a tendency to want to blame one person, or credit one person, when in reality these are complex systems that rise and fall for often complex, random reasons that we don’t have the ability to explain – but it’s easier to say, ‘It was Joe Schmoe over there,’.

Jeff Asher

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You could tell I was not averse to rubbing his nose in this thing. He was polite to me, to this day, Joel does not remember that phone call, and I guess I don’t blame him.

Martin Cooper

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s also kind of a little bit demeaning to blame residential use for these crises, it’s just a small sliver of the overall consumption. It’s a much bigger problem, and we really need to start bringing in these big industries that are guzzling water during this time of drought.

Amanda Starbuck

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Part of the discourse – and I’ve seen that in editorials in Spanish newspapers in the last months – is that people say what’s happening is wrong, but he also has to carry some of the blame, that has fed itself and Vinícius is now getting racially abused very explicitly at every match.

Piara Powar

Found on CNN
1 year ago

As a Republican, I would love to blame that on my Democrat colleagues, but the sad fact of the matter is, Republicans are just as much to blame, if not more.

Josh Hawley

Found on CNN
1 year ago

There’s a lot of the budget people used to say, they would blame Social Security or Medicare for budget woes. But the reality is they have printed trillions and trillions of dollars, and that has really fueled the inflation.

Ron DeSantis

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re not trying to blame anybody for their cancer diagnosis, but when you see something occurring in a short period of time, it’s more likely something external to the patient that’s driving that, and it’s hard not to at least think – when you have something like colorectal cancer – that something diet-related is not impossible.

William Dahut

Found on CNN
1 year ago

If you want to blame somebody in terms of how this all unfolded, it’s very clear that China hid this, did not move quickly enough, and now is blocking investigation.

Beth Sanner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

You see Trump, President Trump, told them the election was stolen. It was Trump that told them to go [to the Capitol]. And it was Trump that unleashed them on January 6, it’s too hard to blame Trump.

Sabino Jauregui

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s too hard to blame Trump, it’s too hard to bring him in here with his army of lawyers. … Instead, they go for the easy target. They go for Enrique Tarrio.

Sabino Jauregui

Found on CNN
1 year ago

They called it, and that’s the way this goes. I’ve said this before, I’m never going to be somebody who puts blame or anything on officials. That’s a hard job. They make a call. It is what it is, there were multiple other moments in that game to take care of business and I think that, you know, we were close. We could have won that game without the officials making… without that call being the determining factor.

Jason Kelce

Found on CNN
1 year ago

That’s exactly the way pay is supposed to work, the problem with pay traditionally is it’s been all upside and no downside. CEOs would often get all the credit and money for good times and then blame El Nino or some extraneous force for the downside. Now they are being forced to accept more responsibility.

Nell Minow

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It’s much more convenient if we can blame it on people we already consider reprehensible.

Jonathan Simon

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Perhaps the president is ignorant of the carnage he is inflicting, but due to his failure to travel to the Mexican border and see the consequences of his actions — and inactions — himself, he has only himself and his advisers to blame.

Andrew Arthur

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Like each of you, I am deeply disappointed by the results of the recent election, despite what the armchair quarterbacks on TV will tell you, there is no one person responsible for our party’s performance across the country. I know there is no shortage of people who are eager to point fingers and assign blame here in Washington, but I won’t be one of them.

Scott Applewhite

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

I have not heard anybody thrown under the bus that way because of a glitch on your system that knocked Donald and Hunter off the network go so quickly dark and put the blame on somebody that had no control over what happened and quickly construct a narrative, this is part of the bull---- that goes on. You build a narrative that had no basis in truth.

Mike Bonhoeffer

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

If they win, they’ll give me no credit, and if they lose, they’ll blame me and there’s not a thing I can do about it, there is real Trump derangement syndrome.

Donald Trump

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

Democrats are to blame for the pain at the pump, the record high utility bills, and soaring energy costs, voters know Republicans are ready to get our economy back on track and that starts with unleashing American energy.

Ronna McDaniel

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

No one wants to be president when gas prices start inching upward, biden and Democrats are facing that reality right now, and that's why you're seeing them cast blame widely.

Myron Ebell

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

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