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Example sentences for: scapegoat

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

Two terms that surfaced during Mr. Liman's questioning were fall guy and scapegoat , both terms introduced by him and not Col.
Vexed by discord, the founding families find a convenient scapegoat in a colony of single women that springs up at a ruined Catholic home for Indian girls 15 miles away.
Hardened and bitter, in search of a scapegoat, they occasionally lashed out at the weak."
And so we still scapegoat RN for all the sins of the era to avoid having to ask tough questions about what really happened to Indochina, and to America, when Hanoi and the Khmer Rouge were permitted to have their way with people whom we'd pledged to protect (and almost succeeded in protecting).
The article claims Schwalier did everything right, and that Cohen simply sought a scapegoat.