BLAME in a Sentence

Learn BLAME from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

251 example sentences for BLAME, such as:

1. He blamed Fiona for a lousy weekend.
2. They tried to put the blame onto me.
3. Truth may be blamed, but shall never be shamed.
4. A dropped cigarette is being blamed for the fire.
5. The report absolved her from/of all blame for the accident.

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 Meanings and Examples of BLAME
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
blame
 v.  condemn; rebuke; find fault with; censure
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  I should be greatly to blame if I were to omit that, as soon as Manilov had pronounced these words, the face of his guest became replete with satisfaction.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER II
2  In the same way Chichikov sought a scapegoat upon whose shoulders he could lay the blame for all that had annoyed him.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER VIII
3  In passing, my readers must not blame me if the characters whom they have encountered in these pages have not been altogether to their liking.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: CHAPTER XI
4  I must hasten to add that I am the only person to blame in all this, while Mr. Bazarov has behaved most honourably.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
5  My poor brother, of course, is to blame; and he is punished for it.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  I am all the readier to do so because, speaking from my conscience, I was to blame then too for flirting or something.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
7  The worst of it is, look at it which way one will, it still turns out that I was always the most to blame in everything.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: II
8  And what is most humiliating of all, to blame for no fault of my own but, so to say, through the laws of nature.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: II
9  In the first place, to blame because I am cleverer than any of the people surrounding me.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: II
10  To blame, finally, because even if I had had magnanimity, I should only have had more suffering from the sense of its uselessness.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: II
11  As though of design I used to get into trouble in cases when I was not to blame in any way.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: V
12  For that one could not blame even the laws of nature, though the laws of nature have continually all my life offended me more than anything.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: V
13  I warn you that my friend is a compound personality and therefore it is difficult to blame him as an individual.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: VII
14  And you won't dare to say a word, not half a word when they drive you away from here; you will go away as though you were to blame.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VII
15  But then when he found out that Anton Antonovich was not to blame and they got to talking more intimately, he changed right away, and, thank Heaven, everything went well.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT III
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
16  It's natural to recriminate against someone who has tried to put the blame on you.
17  They tried to put the blame onto me.
18  The report absolved her from/of all blame for the accident.
19  If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
20  She said she was not going to attribute blame or seek revenge for what had happened.
21  The parents were not to blame for the tragic death of their son.
22  Dr David Viner from the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in Britain says that natural variability in the weather is probably to blame but human influence can't be ruled out.
23  If you just implement this disaster then the blame becomes yours as well and the police will become alienated from the public.
24  President Trump as well as his top aides have expressed skepticism about climate change, while others say human activity is to blame for global warming.
25  Pilots' trade unions and Air France have been at loggerheads with planemaker Airbus over who or what was to blame for the airline's worst loss.
26  He blamed Fiona for a lousy weekend.
27  Like many in Russia, she blamed the country'sfailings on futile attempts to catch up with the West.
28  A disgruntled former employee is being blamed for the explosion.
29  A dropped cigarette is being blamed for the fire.
30  Truth may be blamed, but shall never be shamed.