How to Use recrimination in a Sentence

recrimination

noun
  • The discussion turned into a heated debate with recriminations flying back and forth.
  • The meeting ended with bitterness and recrimination.
  • The haze and shadows are a fog of time and recrimination not ready to lift.
    Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2018
  • Get it right, and the project is off to a flying start. Screw it up, and down the line there are bound to be squabbles and recriminations.
    Fortune Staff, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2018
  • There will be no end to it anytime soon: the funerals, the recriminations, the threats, the fear, the assaults.
    David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • When the news broke, of course, there were loud recriminations.
    Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2023
  • None has yet passed, but the recriminations linger in Texas.
    The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The Worldwide Leader’s actions in both the Lee and Hill episodes stem from fear of recrimination from the right.
    Josh Levin, Slate Magazine, 15 Sep. 2017
  • Meryl Streep dines out on the role of the cranky Aunt March, whose money comes with endless strands of guilt and recrimination.
    Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • The Asheville newspaper's story sparked recriminations over the handling of the case and the video leak.
    Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The air these days, though, is charged with recrimination.
    Jeffrey Fleishman, latimes.com, 11 May 2018
  • The group has been the target of recriminations and sanctions, to no effect.
    Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
  • The recriminations meant that by this week, there were only 10 active members of a body that ought to have 18.
    Judith Vonberg, CNN, 4 May 2018
  • Knud Adams directs the screening of home movies and the dawning of self-recrimination.
    Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Larry’s lie caused a whirl of mistrust and recriminations among the friends.
    Oli Coleman, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
  • But the dominant mood of the capital was a mix of rage and recrimination.
    Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 1 June 2017
  • But the dominant mood of the capital was a mix of rage and recriminations.
    Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 1 June 2017
  • In the worst, bickering over the flow is a source of constant tension and recrimination.
    The Economist, 14 May 2020
  • At that moment when a small child is struggling to breathe, most parents have leaped far ahead of me in self-recrimination.
    Rachel Pearson, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2021
  • Qatar had returned to the fold, and Arab countries have turned from years of recrimination and grievance to a new year of diplomacy.
    Llewellyn King, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
  • But the whole light show of recrimination and adulation is designed to keep the brand attuned to its shoppers.
    Fortune, 24 Sep. 2019
  • The whole thing becomes like a Jacuzzi of recrimination, where the jets are spraying in everyone’s faces and no one can relax.
    Brian Moylan, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2021
  • But Europe prolonged the agony with bitter recriminations over who should clean up the mess.
    Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2018
  • Not only the rapes but all the sequelae: the agony, the bitterness, the self-recrimination, the asco, the desperate need to keep it hidden and silent.
    Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2018
  • That’s a reprieve from the recrimination that Tedros faces from U.S. voices.
    Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 17 Apr. 2020
  • The basic plotlines of this story, the naming of names and the attendant recriminations, are by now well known.
    Noah Isenberg, The New Republic, 3 July 2018
  • The news peg for these recriminations, of course, is the Democrats losing Tuesday’s special election for a House seat in Georgia.
    Howard Kurtz, Fox News, 22 June 2017
  • The construction team that had been hired to design and build the 630-foot-tall wheel tried to withdraw from the project in May amid an exchange of complaints and recriminations about the cost and timing of the project.
    Patrick McGeehan, New York Times, 14 Aug. 2017
  • The result was a constant exchange of recriminations between the United States and North Korea.
    Victor Cha, Foreign Affairs, 1 Apr. 2018
  • But the campaign ended in recriminations among top advisors, like many losing efforts.
    Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 2024

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