8 sentences with 'blame'
Example sentences and phrases with the word blame and other words derived from it.
• « Even in the case of the student murderer Charles Whitman, it is not certain that the tumour in his brain alone is to blame: things are often much more complex. »
• « Family politics may have been to blame for the assassination of Philip II, as his wife Olympias (Alexander's mother) may have ordered his murder, as well as the murder of his other wife and children. »
• « The Library of Alexandria was eventually destroyed, although to this day there are competing versions of the blame for its destruction (from the forces of Julius Caesar during his involvement in an Egyptian civil war to Christian or Muslim fanatics centuries later). »
• « Japan shocked the world when it easily defeated Russia in the Russo-Japanese War. For many Russians, the Tsar was to blame for the defeat, both because he allowed Russia to fall so far behind the rest of the industrialised world economically, and because he himself had proved to be an indecisive leader during the war. »
• « "Hysteria' was a term invented to blame the female anatomy for the physical symptoms, in the absence of other discernible causes. However, Freud believed that hysteria was not the result of some unknown physical problem among women, but the physical result of psychological trauma - in almost all cases, that of what we would now describe as sexual abuse. »
• « France and Britain went out of their way to blame Germany for the conflict, while in Germany itself, those on the right believed in the conspiracy theory that Communists and Jews had conspired to sabotage the German war effort, later called the "stab in the back" myth. »
• « More orthodox in their claims, some scientists blame the stranding of cetaceans on water pollution, the activity of large ships, as well as shark attacks. »
• « A huge part of the blame for the toads' extinction lies with the motorway builders. It happens that the toads go to spawn in small puddles that are usually located on the other side of motorways. »