Example sentences for: blamed

How can you use “blamed” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Thus Americans are blamed when Israelis fight with Palestinians, when Russians fight with Chechens, when Indians fight with Kashmiri Muslims, and when the Philippine government fights ethnic Muslims in its southern islands.

  • Cixi has been blamed ever since for her profligate and selfish ways, combined with her Machiavellian rise from concubine to Empress, popularly held to be the cause of China’s weakness and the fall of the last dynasty.

  • Berger noted the possible "slight impact" on Bin Ladin and added, "if he responds, we're blamed."

  • As Slate 's "Pundit Central" points out, the consensus view of the commentariat is that President Clinton is to be blamed for selling burial rights at Arlington Cemetery to campaign contributors--even though it turns out he never did it--because it's just the sort of thing he might have done.

  • A leader in Britain's Observer took an unusual position, claiming that the carelessly erected buildings of the 1980s, which have been blamed for the quake's massive death toll, represent Turkey's "attempt to escape from stagnation and backwardness by letting private enterprise rip."


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