How to Use pin the blame on in a Sentence

pin the blame on

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• 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
• Musk pinned the blame on the left for the conviction of Le Pen.
  — Benjamin Weinthal, FOXNews.com, 1 Apr. 2025
• 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
• The owner pinned the blame on financial issues in a text to workers on Monday.
  — Dennis Valera, CBS News, 3 Feb. 2026
• Charging documents indicate Dixon tried to pin the blame on Thomas.
  — Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2021
• But some Democrats have already looked to pin the blame on President Biden, who some think took too long to step aside.
  — Amie Parnes, The Hill, 31 Oct. 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
• Both of them clearly think that Ben is guilty, and Van is particularly eager to pin the blame on him.
  — Erin Qualey, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025
• The fighting is already underway with the president trying to pin the blame on Democrats.
  — Juan Williams, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
• 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
• 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
• 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
• In this week’s report, the inspector general pinned the blame on lax safeguards at SBA.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 28 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• Lafferty pins the blame on the rash of killings that terrorized the Bay Area in the ‘70s on a certain someone.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 22 Jan. 2025
• 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
• 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
• Where earlier studio films noirs had often pinned the blame on lone offenders and femmes fatales, Towne indicted the entire system.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 3 July 2024
• Experts remain hesitant to pin the blame on tariffs yet, focusing more on labor issues, housing costs and other usual culprits.
  — Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Aug. 2025
• The diagnosis was revealed in a statement by the senator a day after his attorneys pinned the blame on her during opening statements of his bribery trial.
  — Caitlin Yilek, CBS News, 15 July 2024
• On top of the page, the department pins the blame on Senate Democrats for the non-issuance of benefits, which began Saturday.
  — Tara Suter, The Hill, 2 Nov. 2025
• How else to read this moment but as the culmination of that ‘natural way of things,’ which pins the blame on contemporary, commercialized womanhood?
  — Literary Hub, 2 Apr. 2026
• 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
• Sherrill has pinned the blame on the Republican candidate’s campaign, going so far as to run an ad attacking Ciattarelli over the issue.
  — Caroline Vakil, The Hill, 8 Oct. 2025
• Her defense has argued that fellow law enforcement officers in that home killed O’Keefe, dumped his body on the lawn and conspired to pin the blame on Read in a vast cover-up.
  — Eric Levenson, CNN Money, 5 May 2025
• 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
• 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