How to Use take the blame in a Sentence

take the blame

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• No one wanted to take the blame.
  — Cameron Crowe, HollywoodReporter, 24 Oct. 2025
• Nobody else can take the blame.
  — Mano Sundaresan, Pitchfork, 12 Mar. 2026
• Cuban tried to take the blame for the freefall and screwed that up, too.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 24 Apr. 2023
• Nobody wants to take the blame for such a large failure.
  — Jeremy Lott, The Washington Examiner, 3 Oct. 2025
• Weak muscles in your hips and core most often take the blame, Holland says.
  — Cindy Kuzma, Health, 9 Mar. 2023
• Louisa might take the blame for this, for having wasted the batteries now.
  — Susan Choi, The New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2020
• Meanwhile, Dennis in Cyrus’ body will take the blame for the deaths.
  — Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 10 Oct. 2024
• And Petrakov again displayed that by stepping up to take the blame for the loss.
  — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022
• And the coaches are the ones who regularly take the blame.
  — The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2026
• To stop letting one Young Black Man take the blame, the hate, the fall.
  — Jem Aswad, Variety, 19 Nov. 2021
• Democrats seem to think Republicans will take the blame for the shutdown and not them.
  — NPR, 31 Oct. 2025
• Start the budget train moving and squeeze the swing-state Democrats to get on board or take the blame for failure.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 14 July 2021
• Instead, the heist he’s been set up to take the blame for has generated all the wrong kinds of headlines.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Sep. 2024
• After the game Sunday, Rivers tried to take the blame away from Reich.
  — Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 15 Sep. 2020
• After two terms in office, Hahn should take the blame, Villanueva said.
  — Rebecca Ellis, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2024
• Velma agreed to take the blame to preserve his and Nathan’s relationship.
  — Cate Young, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2021
• The second-team All-Pro linebacker wouldn’t allow Darnold to take the blame.
  — Rob Maaddi, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
• The Lions have a coach in Dan Campbell who goes overboard to take the blame when things go wrong.
  — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 6 Feb. 2025
• The police force in Australia should take the blame for lack of foresight on the application of tasers.
  — Rachel Pannett, Washington Post, 29 Nov. 2023
• New York center Jon Feliciano didn’t let Neal take the blame alone.
  — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 27 Sep. 2022
• Does anyone take the blame and the responsibility to fix issues, or is blame being thrown around?
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• That was a calamitous moment for Barca’s back line, one where Joan Garcia had to take the blame.
  — Dermot Corrigan, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
• Be a good listener and a helpful associate, but don’t take the blame for someone else’s shortcomings.
  — Eugenia Last, The Mercury News, 11 Jan. 2024
• One night, a deadly accident leads to Balram having to take the blame for it, which sends him down a path of trying to find a way out.
  — Kevin Jacobsen, Entertainment Weekly, 28 Jan. 2026
• In June, airlines refused to take the blame alone for heavy flight traffic and disruptions along the East Coast.
  — Dallas News, 11 Jan. 2023
• But the Memphis players were unwilling to let Jenkins take the blame for their play in a losing effort.
  — Clay Bailey, USA TODAY, 4 Jan. 2024
• Marinakis is a man who is more than happy to take the credit for things that go right — of which there have been plenty over the years — but less keen to publicly take the blame when things go wrong.
  — Nick Miller, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
• Who'd actually take the blame in a default depends on the eventual circumstances.
  — Gary Langer, ABC News, 5 May 2023
• If the highest preseason expectations in club history crash, the Dodgers will need an easy target to take the blame, and that will be him.
  — Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 3 Mar. 2024
• Baoshu’s decision to take the blame and spend five years behind bars — not even telling his late mom the truth — continues to haunt both of them and causes an inescapable cycle of guilt.
  — Adam Solomons, IndieWire, 5 Sep. 2025