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Example sentences for "blame"

Lexicographically close words:
blaen; blah; blains; blak; blamable; blameable; blamed; blameless; blamelessly; blamelessness
  1. The Sea, perceiving that they intended to throw the blame on him, said, "Pray cease to flow into me, and then you will not be made briny.

  2. Jupiter replied, "Why do you blame me without a cause?

  3. And you could never, never blame yourself.

  4. You must not blame me, or think me too cowardly.

  5. They have their blame and they must bear the responsibility.

  6. Some of you are inclined to lay the blame for the ills that have fallen upon us upon certain classes and individuals in this community.

  7. Partly, I blame myself because of what I said to you about Di in camp.

  8. It might be said about March that he risked trouble for himself, for the pleasure of having a smack at Vandyke; putting the blame on him for a mad order to fire off guns at the good little Mexicans, for instance, do you see?

  9. She could not blame him if he sought a younger and fairer companion for his hours of relaxation.

  10. We know," the Athenian answered gravely, "and we do not blame you, since all of us must bow to the will of the Gods.

  11. Can you blame me if I want to win my wager?

  12. Am I to blame because my life has not been like that of other women?

  13. I do not blame these as I once did; "For the natural man is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

  14. Mr. Griffin was no more to blame in this matter than the rest of the republicans.

  15. The thief, the murderer, or any other class of criminals could just as well blame others for their own wrong doings.

  16. I began to harass these dive-keepers, although they were not as much to blame as the city officials who allowed them to run.

  17. She's afraid somebody's going to blame that charming Adele," she whispered.

  18. I don't blame Miss Walker for wanting to clean it out of the school.

  19. Of course, I don't mean to blame her, but she teased me into it.

  20. Ye can do as you like, but if the Professor don't like his breakfast the blame be on you.

  21. Dandolo in wrath, adding: "Yet I cannot blame the Englishmen overmuch, seeing that they were sore affronted, as I saw with my eyes and heard with my ears.

  22. Lastly he learned that King Edward, in a letter written by one of his secretaries to Sir Andrew Arnold and received only that morning, said that he held him, Hugh de Cressi, not to blame for Acour's escape.

  23. Yet the world will blame him, and you, too, Eve; yes, even those who love you both.

  24. Oh, I say, I blame him not, nor shall John's blood rise between him and me!

  25. Sir Knight," went on the frightened fellow, "blame me not for the acts of God.

  26. In sixty years the memory plays strange tricks with men, no doubt, so how can I blame you if you believe--what you do believe?

  27. Let him know, however, that, notwithstanding our words of yesterday, we shall not hold him to blame if he fails, since many a man of higher degree promises more at night than he can perform in the morning.

  28. Sir Andrew here will have told you the story; also that I am not to blame for this blood-shedding.

  29. You can't blame the captain; he knows that you spend the little money you do earn at the saloon.

  30. You can't blame me for feeling a little doubt as to the wisdom of my advance.

  31. Who is to blame for the blindness in the first place?

  32. Well, I don't know that one can really blame them for not wanting smallpox brought into the neighborhood.

  33. But, happily for Shenac, she did not know that she had any nerves, and her mother's wheel got the blame of her discomfort.

  34. She did not know how she hurt her daughter, or she never would have said anything like that, for in her heart she knew that Shenac was not to blame for the waywardness of Dan.

  35. Still it is hard for a man to starve; and when time passes and they can light upon no Spanish merchantmen, one cannot blame them too sorely if they take what they require out of some other passing ship.

  36. Ned could hardly blame the men, who had indeed stabbed their captives the instant they dragged them among the trees, for doubtless the risk they would have run of detection would have been great had they permitted them to live.

  37. You are right," Ned said; "and I do not blame you for being discreet.

  38. You will see why we blame the guilty Lawrence and his colleagues, and not England herself, for the wickedness wrought her French children.

  39. I cannot blame you," and with a farewell glance, in which there was a curious blending of despair and gratified pride, he ran after the boy.

  40. I blush for it,--I am ashamed, but can you blame me?

  41. And even if I did believe him, I wouldn't lay any blame on him.

  42. The one to blame is he who first said: 'This is mine.

  43. I cannot understand it; but my heart turned softer when I recognized that there is truth in men, and that not all are to blame for their foulness and filth.

  44. A man," he says, "can only act consistently by accepting all this letter or rejecting it all, and we cannot blame him for either.

  45. I have never attached any great value to poetical fame; and I trouble myself very little whether people praise my verses or blame them.

  46. We may not blame the humble servitor for the faults and failings of his masters and for the carelessness and depravity of his age.

  47. Indeed, on that very evening after the evil tidings came, he began to blame himself bitterly in her presence for having sent her lover away, when she stopped him.

  48. Well, upon my word, I don't blame you; you might have gone farther and fared worse.

  49. As I told you before, I was to blame in that affair in the inn-yard at Wakkerstroom.

  50. Let those who would blame them pause awhile.

  51. The child gets the blame for making the wreck, even as Gussie was blamed for wrecking his father's plant, when the child is the victim.

  52. Do not blame it all upon the city mail order house.

  53. I don't blame the young fool for being taken in.

  54. And if beneath his heartfelt rejoicing there lurked the shadow of bitterness, who shall blame him?

  55. Who can blame us if we get slack and ready to do anything for a change?

  56. We are all English, and who knows how little or how much we are all to blame for this disaster?

  57. I am not the least to blame that you fell away from us in resentment and bitterness.

  58. I am not responsible to society, and in any case, no direct blame for the past can attach itself to you.

  59. The victims of intemperance are marvellously skilful in laying the blame of their downfall on men and circumstances, and Piggy Morris attributed all his melancholy change of fortune to a hard landlord and bad times.

  60. The old squire is as proud of his son as a hen with one chick, and small blame to him for that.

  61. Sainte-Beuve with blame if it was said that he was impelled in his operations as a critic by curiosity, and omitting either to perceive that M.

  62. But among friends (for only friends are here), Why should we blame the Spartans for all this?

  63. Sainte-Beuve himself, and many other people with him, would consider that this was praiseworthy and not blameworthy, or to point out why it ought really to be accounted worthy of blame and not of praise.

  64. Who keeps faith, no blame he earns, and that man whose heart is led to goodness unmixed with guile gains freedom and peace of soul.

  65. The trouble is that some of the hot-headed youngsters want to hold the poor niggers responsible, as I said just now, and the niggers are no more to blame than the chicken in a new-laid egg.

  66. I don't know as I blame the niggers much.

  67. I dunno as I blame you much, all things considered.

  68. I hate 'em all right enough, but I don't blame 'em.

  69. Why, she'd spit in his face, and I wouldn't blame her.

  70. Whereupon she told the negro woman the cause of Paul's anger, and ended by saying that she didn't blame him for showing the spirit of a Southern gentleman.

  71. You came to me with stories of his misdeeds; you said that he was a scoundrel and that you would not blame me for 'showing him up.

  72. You do not care to have me remain a member of the firm, nor do I blame you for feeling as you do about it.

  73. Plinty of it, begob, but I've had some one besides meself to blame for it.

  74. I don't blame you for being afraid of the attractive Mr. Booth," she said, with a significant lifting of her eyebrows.


  75. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blame" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accredit; accuse; acknowledge; allegation; anathema; application; arraign; arraignment; assignation; assignment; attachment; attribute; blame; censure; charge; come; complaint; condemn; condemnation; confess; connect; connection; correct; count; credit; criticize; damn; damnation; decry; denounce; denunciation; disapprove; etiology; fault; flak; guilt; honor; impeach; implication; impugn; imputation; incriminate; indict; indictment; information; innuendo; insinuation; knock; lawsuit; pan; pinpoint; placement; plaint; prosecution; rap; refer; reprehend; reprehension; reproach; reprobate; responsibility; scold; sentence; skin; stricture; suit; task; taxing; thank; twit; vituperation