How to Use fault in a Sentence

fault

1 of 2 noun

• If the book has a fault, it's that it's too long.
• Lack of courage is his worst fault.
• It's your own fault you missed that bus.
• She committed too many faults to win the match.
• Through no fault of his own, he won't be able to attend the meeting.
• Well, maybe that was his fault.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 3 June 2026
• Well, maybe that was his fault.
  — Issy Ronald, CNN Money, 4 June 2026
• And none of that is your fault.
  — Susanna Wolff, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
• And that will be your own fault!
  — Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026
• Lynch wasn’t at fault, of course.
  — Michael Silver, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
• And no one's at fault here, right?
  — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 20 Oct. 2025
• Yeah, that’s our fault on that one.
  — Ben Smith, semafor.com, 6 Feb. 2026
• Like no one’s at fault here, right?
  — Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 18 Oct. 2025
• Some of them have not been his fault.
  — Reice Shipley, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Nov. 2025
• Not Rhaenyra’s fault, but sure.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 19 June 2026
• All the fault and all the blame here falls on me.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, Entertainment Weekly, 6 Feb. 2026
• How much of that is Ware’s fault?
  — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 17 Apr. 2026
• And, through no fault of her own, couldn’t use them.
  — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 2 Apr. 2026
• This is no fault of Ina, of course.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 11 Mar. 2026
• Their feud has been bizarrely booked through no fault of their own.
  — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes.com, 9 May 2026
• But some songs are hollow to a fault.
  — Billie Bugara, Pitchfork, 10 Feb. 2026
• Both parties have been at fault here.
  — NBC news, 3 May 2026
• And this is on one of those secondary faults.
  — Dean Fioresi, CBS News, 22 Jan. 2026
• Some people get sick at no fault of their own.
  — Bydr. Marita Kinney, Forbes.com, 16 Sep. 2025
• In tennis an ace might be seen as a fault.
  — Harvey Levine, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Jan. 2026
• Show me a country that doesn’t have faults.
  — Television Critic, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2026
• Yes, her faults are ugly, but so are mine.
  — Ann Manov, Harpers Magazine, 23 June 2026
• The faults formed those valleys.
  — Rick Hurd, Mercury News, 24 June 2026
• There’s no one at fault but you for what happens.
  — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 9 Jan. 2026
• The fault lied with France, who should not have run up.
  — Kevin Acee, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 May 2026

fault

2 of 2 verb

• The truck driver was faulted for the accident.
• I can't fault him for trying to protect his family.
• Many have faulted her for not acting sooner.
• There is little to fault with .
  — Billie Melissa, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
• No one will fault their effort.
  — Simon Johnson, New York Times, 16 May 2026
• Cruise control can fault for a wide range of reasons.
  — Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2026
• The group’s memo faults the NDAA on two fronts.
  — Brett Samuels, The Hill, 8 Dec. 2025
• Most marsquakes are believed to occur due to fault movements.
  — Julia Musto, Fox News, 20 Dec. 2022
• Thus, from fault to fault, from void to void, humans levitate.
  — Elinore Weil, Artforum, 4 Mar. 2026
• Kesov faulted the county for making the sale.
  — Graham Womack may 18, Sacbee.com, 18 May 2026
• People did not fault the mayor or the police for what had happened.
  — Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2023
• Still, Gauff struggled in the first set and double-faulted on set point.
  — Adam Zagoria, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• Alcaraz didn’t double-fault the entire match.
  — Sean Gregory, Time, 7 Sep. 2025
• Besides their steep price, there’s not much to fault these luxurious linen sheets for.
  — Kathleen Felton, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Apr. 2023
• Anisimova caught her toss, but then double-faulted and lost the game.
  — James Hansen, New York Times, 30 May 2026
• At the time, many critics faulted its confusing plot.
  — Brent Lang, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
• His response didn’t fault his agency’s process for screening voters.
  — Skyler Swisher, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Sep. 2022
• People just want to enjoy the pleasures that old money affords, and who can fault them?
  — Kareem Rashed, Robb Report, 28 Aug. 2022
• The same general description the court used to fault the old plan applies to the new one, too.
  — Andrew J. Tobias, cleveland, 28 Mar. 2022
• No one can fault you for wanting to looksmaxx, sleepmaxx or moneymaxx (up to a point).
  — Bruce Weinstein, Forbes.com, 26 June 2026
• But insiders note that there is apparently fault on both sides.
  — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 28 May 2026
• As the winds intensified, power lines across the city started to fault.
  — Chiara Eisner, NPR, 2 Oct. 2025
• To fault Bruce Springsteen for loving soul music would be a slight to the music.
  — David Hajdu, The Atlantic, 19 Nov. 2022
• Cindy also faults her decision to bring Stephenie with her on the reward.
  — EW.com, 13 Aug. 2025
• One can’t be faulted for gingerly poking their head outside to see what’s up with the spring weather.
  — oregonlive, 13 Apr. 2023
• Otto says she has at times been faulted for being too political.
  — Lois Parshley, Scientific American, 16 May 2023
• For Clawson, there was little to fault in his team’s effort and preparation.
  — Mark Heim | [email protected], al, 1 Oct. 2022
• This approach endeared her even to critics who faulted her vocal miscues.
  — Jonathan Kandell, New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
• Chwalinska double-faulted on the opening point of the match, but was the first player to hold serve in the fifth game.
  — CBS News, 6 June 2026
• On the other hand, its power, smoothness, appointments, and all-around velvety feel are hard to fault.
  — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 9 Feb. 2023