How to Use pin the blame on in a Sentence

pin the blame on

idiomatic phrase

• With a guy like Hitler to pin the blame on, the rest was easy.
  — Noam Cohen, Wired, 7 Sep. 2021
• This time around, there’s no giant asteroid to pin the blame on.
  — Matt Reynolds, Wired, 17 Dec. 2021
• One political group tried to pin the blame on the other.
  — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 22 Dec. 2022
• Russell Faria had tried for years to pin the blame on Hupp, who was known to be the last person to see Betsy Faria alive.
  — Jeff Truesdell, PEOPLE.com, 13 July 2021
• The budget fight is expected to drag out for months as both sides attempt to pin the blame on the other.
  — Jim Tankersley, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2023
• Other senior officials have sought to pin the blame on Ukraine for the attack.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN, 25 Mar. 2024
• Still, Booth is careful to pin the blame on himself and not on the resort employees who organized the meal.
  — Lilit Marcus, CNN, 21 June 2021
• The White House was quick to pin the blame on Republicans for any negative effects on the program.
  — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 28 Sep. 2023
• Other lawyers for those charged with storming the Capitol have tried to pin the blame on Trump for inciting the rioters.
  — Alanna Durkin Richer and Michael Kunzelman, Star Tribune, 10 Mar. 2021
• In this week’s report, the inspector general pinned the blame on lax safeguards at SBA.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 28 June 2023
• The defense sought to largely pin the blame on a right-wing website that published the surveillance video of the two women counting ballots.
  — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 16 Dec. 2023
• Charging documents indicate Dixon tried to pin the blame on Thomas.
  — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2021
• Was this an attempt by Hauser to pin the blame on someone else - David Glynn, who worked as a research assistant in Hauser's lab for three years, and has since left academia?
  — Neuroskeptic, Discover Magazine, 1 Sep. 2010
• Jurors have not been told of the diagnosis, which the senator disclosed to the public a day after his attorneys pinned the blame on his wife.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 14 June 2024
• But that hasn’t stopped others from trying to pin the blame on what Republicans say are holes in the criminal justice system.
  — Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Apr. 2022
• The nursing home tried to pin the blame on visitors, but Gelezunas believes an unvaccinated staffer brought the virus into the nursing home.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week, 21 July 2021
• At other times, a consensus has formed around arguments that pin the blame on poor African leadership in the decades since most of the continent achieved independence in the 1960s.
  — Howard W. French, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
• Defense attorneys have argued Vigil Mejia was a mastermind behind the killings, and was now trying to pin the blame on others to reduce his own time behind bars.
  — Salvador Rizzo, Washington Post, 25 May 2022
• In the past, Trump has vehemently denied any involvement in or knowledge of the hush-money payments, saying Cohen acted on his own and was now trying to pin the blame on him.
  — Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 13 May 2024
• Partisans in Texas tend to pin the blame on Hegar and Cornyn, with either side saying the other’s candidate has failed to generate enough enthusiasm.
  — Tom Benning, Dallas News, 28 Oct. 2020
• As Joanna Thompson reports for the Daily Beast, the original authors still believe the goblin shark was real and squarely pin the blame on their skeptical peers.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2023
• Gutierrez Reed has denied bringing the live rounds on set, and has pinned the blame on Seth Kenney, her mentor, who provided guns and dummy ammunition to the production.
  — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 31 Jan. 2024
• Gair has sought to pin the blame on the bank and its former president, John Gembara, saying Thompson had nothing to do with generating the erroneous tax forms that wound up on his returns.
  — Jason Meisner, chicagotribune.com, 14 Feb. 2022
• But Hazen was not willing to pin the blame on the club’s disappointing season on Lovullo, opting to stick with a manager who has a reputation for working well with younger players.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 30 Aug. 2022
• Part of Menendez's defense strategy has been to pin the blame on his wife, claiming the senator was unaware of his wife's financial challenges and her dealings with the businessmen accused of bribing them.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 3 July 2024
• Company attorneys have sought to pin the blame on the company's former chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, who in August entered a guilty plea in the case.
  — Graham Kates, CBS News, 22 Nov. 2022
• As the investigation continued, however, Cook and his parents came to suspect that the Murdaughs were trying to pin the blame on him, possibly with the connivance of local law enforcement.
  — James Lasdun, The New Yorker, 16 Jan. 2023
• Six months ago, Holmes was convicted of several charges, despite attempts to pin the blame on Balwani, and the prosecution asked the jury to follow suit and similarly convict Balwani.
  — Ashley Belanger, Ars Technica, 7 July 2022
• During Menendez's trial, his counsel has been pinning the blame on his wife, who is undergoing treatment for breast cancer and is expected to go on trial later this summer.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 3 June 2024
• Eventually, investigators pinned the blame on the elaborate design of support components that appeared sound when they were installed in the 1970s.
  — David Clarey, Journal Sentinel, 29 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024