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How to use blame in a sentence

40 example sentences · noun, verb, adjective

Blame means censure. Example: “Blame came from all directions.”

Examples of blame by meaning

nounCensure.

  • Blame came from all directions.

nounCulpability for something negative or undesirable.

  • The blame for starting the fire lies with the arsonist.

nounResponsibility for something meriting censure.

  • They accepted the blame, but it was an accident.

verbTo assert or consider that someone is the cause of something negative; to place blame; to attribute responsibility (for...

  • The student driver was blamed for the accident.
  • After what happened at the wedding, I wouldn't blame you if you never spoke to them again.
  • The critics all blamed it for a lack of concentration.1919, Saki, ‘The Oversight’, The Toys of Peace

verbTo assert the cause of some bad event.

  • We blamed the accident on the student driver.

verbTo censure (someone or something); to criticize.

  • I covered the serious programmes too, and indeed, right from the start, I spent more time praising than blaming.2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho, Picador, published 2007, page 106

More sentences with blame

  • Don’t come the innocent victim. We all know who’s to blame here.From the entry come
  • Some people blame God for their troubles, but one must outgrow such notions.From the entry outgrow
  • There was no question of his blaming me for his frustration.From the entry question
  • No, don't blame yourself. It's my fault that we lost the game.From the entry fault
  • He has no one to blame but himself; he was hoisted by his own petard.From the entry hoist by one's own petard
  • What could be more ouroboric than members of the media who specialize in blaming the media.From the entry ouroboric
  • The cross-examination of the plaintiff was just insult to injury, blaming the victim.From the entry insult to injury
  • Interservice rivalry is often blamed for problems in the US military.From the entry interservice
  • You can't turn round and blame me all of a sudden.From the entry turn round
  • The news article said that destocking was to blame for reduced sales.From the entry destocking
  • I do not by any means blame the employees for the collapse of the company.From the entry by any means
  • The serial killer played the victim card as he blamed others for his actions.From the entry play the victim card
  • She took the blame, in the public's eyes, although the debacle was more her husband's fault than her own.From the entry take
  • Don't be too quick to blame others.From the entry too
  • You mustn't blame yourself for this tragedy.From the entry mustn't
  • There have been calls for research into the pesticides that are blamed for the decline in bee populations.From the entry into
  • The blame seems to rest with your father.From the entry rest
  • He blames his overindulgence in food for his expanding waistline.From the entry overindulgence
  • "Don't blame me. It's your fault." "Hmph!"From the entry hmph
  • Our supplier blamed its subsuppliers for the faulty components.From the entry subsupplier
  • The report blames the explosion on human error.From the entry human error
  • On us be all the blame.From the entry on
  • Thou hast only thyself to blame.From the entry thyself
  • Don't put the blame on me.From the entry put
  • He needed someone to blame for the bus accident, so took aim at the mechanics who failed to carry out the checks.From the entry take aim
  • Who's to blame for this screw-up?From the entry to blame
  • The government has blamed the recent unrest on foreign agitation, but they'll soon realize that the call is coming from inside the house.From the entry the call is coming from inside the house
  • Q: Did you vote last month? A: Yes. I voted for John Smith, and it's a shame that he lost; you can't blame me for the mess we're in now.From the entry vote
  • Happened to a lot of people and harder drugs were blamed.[2026 July 21, Tumikumi, “Anyone have a friend or know someone that's in a weed induced psychosis like they were fine before they started…. From the entry zooked
  • “I keep hearing them want to blame Joe Rogan and I just think that is so shortsighted.2025 June 23, Emma Goldberg, Jake Dockins, “‘Less Burnout, More Babies’: How Conservatives Are Winning Young Women”, in The New York…. From the entry redpill
  • Why would Drake orchestrate a shooting and blame it on someone not in this country?2024 May 7, @leavem3al0ne90, Twitter, archived from the original on 07 Jun 2024. From the entry mod
  • South American gangs have also been blamed for a spate of burglaries in wealthy London suburbs.2024 March 17, David Millward, “‘Burglary tourists’ from South America target upmarket LA homes”, in The Telegraph, archived from the…. From the entry burglary tourism

Meaning of blame

  1. noun Censure.
  2. noun Culpability for something negative or undesirable.
  3. noun Responsibility for something meriting censure.

Full definition of blame

Questions about blame in a sentence

How do you use blame in a sentence?
Blame is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “Blame came from all directions.”
What is a short sentence with blame?
“Blame came from all directions.”
What does blame mean?
Blame means censure.

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: blame (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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