Example Sentences

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Over Christmas 2022, she told Ander her mother was blaming her for other children not coming home for Christmas.

From BBC • Jun. 23, 2025

By 2017, I was blaming “Gone Girl” for igniting the trend of “girls, girls, girls” in domestic suspense fiction titles: “Let’s call it the ‘Gone-Girl-on-a Train’ school of high-anxiety thriller,” I quipped.

From Washington Post • Jun. 12, 2022

Privately, it was blaming the company’s previous leadership for not warning about “serious vulnerabilities” in Kaseya’s software.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2021

Guerrero testified in her deposition that she heard Vidovich was blaming the mayor for his removal, so she told her colleagues “we cannot have him in the mayor’s office.”

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 20, 2019

No one was blaming me for that—it had been a particularly untidy operation—but I wasn’t feeling great all the same.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro