How to Use finger-pointing in a Sentence

finger-pointing

noun

• The handling of the crisis has led to finger-pointing among Democrats.
  — Joanna Slater, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2023
• There was no finger-pointing in the Notre Dame locker room.
  — Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2025
• Quite possibly, and right now there is a lot of finger-pointing about that.
  — WIRED, 13 Mar. 2023
• Leonsis has walked back his finger-pointing at crime as the reason.
  — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
• The fires also seem to be setting a new standard for finger-pointing.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
• The fires also seem to be setting a new standard for finger-pointing.
  — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
• Thanks to the frenetic finger-pointing, the facts have not caught up to his myth-making–until now.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Fortune, 14 June 2023
• Jalen Hurts has regressed, the defense is struggling and there’s some finger-pointing in the locker room.
  — Rob Maaddi, USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
• There will be plenty of finger-pointing, and Harbaugh, Jackson and Andrews figure to bear the brunt of that.
  — Jeff Zrebiec, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
• Players dropped their heads after bad plays and there was finger-pointing.
  — Michael Howes, Baltimore Sun, 14 Nov. 2024
• In the months since, the recriminations and finger-pointing have risen like an angry tide.
  — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
• Here's the latest on the search and recovery efforts and the high-stakes finger-pointing after a tragic mission gone wrong.
  — Grace Hauck, USA TODAY, 24 June 2023
• In such an instance, the loosey-goosey facets might allow for a great deal of confusion, finger-pointing, and slippery contrivances.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
• The potential breakthrough ends a lengthy impasse marked by miscues and finger-pointing on both sides.
  — Vivek Wadhwa, Fortune, 19 Oct. 2024
• For far too long, Swampscott and Lynn have engaged in as much denialism and finger-pointing as pipe-fixing.
  — Yvonne Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2023
• An anxious and ashamed Allison wants to bolt, but Daniel, looking to surmount his own anger and finger-pointing, urges her to stay and confront her demons.
  — Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2023
• Leadership and teams were finger-pointing and passing off blame.
  — Anne Sugar, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
• But the end result was ho-hum 82-80 record, no postseason and an endless stream of finger-pointing and alibis.
  — Jay Paris, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024
• While there does not appear to be a single reason the lawsuits are caught up in a legal logjam, there is plenty of finger-pointing about who is to blame.
  — Corky Siemaszko, NBC news, 9 May 2025
• On Tuesday, the FAA released its own charts - a sign that this summer could again see finger-pointing between the government and the industry.
  — Ian Duncan, Anchorage Daily News, 10 May 2023
• In the weeks to come there would be breathless news segments, finger-pointing, misinformation, and dashed hopes.
  — Longreads, 1 Feb. 2024
• Without naming names, Ocasio-Cortez denounced some of the nasty finger-pointing that has erupted in left-wing circles over what went wrong.
  — Dave Goldiner, New York Daily News, 11 Nov. 2024
• His flagship show’s star, Kevin Costner, is exiting the series amid anonymous finger-pointing in the press.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 June 2023
• Kody Brown is not happy that the family is spending Christmas apart, but Robyn Brown has no patience for his finger-pointing.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 23 Dec. 2023
• The time to act is now, not in the aftermath of a crisis, when there is a dearth of sensible thinking and an abundance of overreaction and finger-pointing.
  — Sheldon H. Jacobson, The Mercury News, 20 July 2024
• Still, the political finger-pointing has begun over whether more could have been done sooner.
  — Kirk Siegler, NPR, 12 Jan. 2025
• There's been a lot of political finger-pointing in East Palestine.
  — ABC News, 19 Feb. 2023
• The abrupt implosion of the country's 16th-largest bank last week resulted in swift finger-pointing in Washington.
  — Alexandra Hutzler, ABC News, 15 Mar. 2023
• Democrats have engaged in soul-searching and finger-pointing within the party as members look to apportion blame for the defeat.
  — Ivana Saric, Axios, 12 Dec. 2024
• The embarrassing details about Biden’s failing mental acuity while in office have provoked a flurry of finger-pointing.
  — Michael Graham, Boston Herald, 21 May 2025