Use blame in a sentence
Sentences starting with blame
- Blame him not, you whose garden-patch is not watered with the tears of mourners. [6]
- Blame me if we wouldn't have run plumb by it if twilight had held on a little longer. [5]
- Blame her who may, the world was a very splendid vision as it opened before her eyes in its long vista of pleasures and of triumphs. [6]
- Blame dat man, he worries me wid dem ornery glasses o' his'n; _I_ b'lieve he's a witch. [5]
- Blame my cats but this thing requires genius in order to work it just right. [5]
- Blame it all! [5]
Sentences ending with blame
- His one desire was to know what was happening and at any cost correct, or remedy, the mistake if he had made one, so that he, an exemplary officer of twenty-two years' service, who had never been censured, should not be held to blame. [2]
- Even with a type-setter on hand we ought not to be in the least scrimped --but it would take a long letter to explain why and who is to blame. [5]
- The severe blow they have received naturally enough makes them intemperate even without there being any just cause for blame. [7]
- We called up the dowager countess, Comyn's mother, and Carlisle broke the news to her, mercifully lightening me of a share of the blame. [9]
- He acknowledged, himself, that he had been to blame. [5]
- But it appears that even dogs appreciate encouragement, praise, and blame. [1]
- I forbore to tell him lies, for that would have been wrong; but if my truths deceived him, perhaps that made them lies, and I am to blame. [5]
- To all this talk, so far as it reached him, he was supremely indifferent, not only with the indifference which all gentlemen feel to the gossip of their inferiors, but with a charitable calmness which did not wonder or blame. [6]
- The order of St. Francis alone regarded them with favour, interceded for them, and watched over them with kindly interest, taking care that they were kept aloof from everything which would expose them to reproach or blame. [10]
- Of course he oughtn't to go to sleep, because it's shabby; but the finer a person talks the certainer it is to make you sleep, and so when you come to look at it it ain't nobody's fault in particular; both of them's to blame. [5]
Short sentences using blame
- I don't blame you. [8]
- Who can blame them? [9]
- I don't blame them. [8]
- Then why blame me! [11]
- But don't blame me afterwards. [9]
- You must blame Hugh. [9]
- Do I blame his bitterness? [9]
- Who will blame him? [9]
- I don't blame him. [9]
- Who could blame her? [6]
Sentences containing blame two or more times
- He might blame the son, blame the daughter, yet he could not condemn them utterly . [9]
- A thrust of the point, and in an instant gone, and no one to know, no one to discover, no one to add blame to blame, to pile shame upon shame. [11]
- Put the blame on him--him that couldn't help himself, struck by a horse-thief's bullet in the dark; him that's no more to blame for your carryings on while death was prowling about the door there--" "Carryings on! [11]
- I blame you not, Mrs. Temple, for anything you have done to me, but I blame you for embittering Nick's life. [9]
- General McClellan is not to blame for asking for what he wanted and needed, and the Secretary of War is not to blame for not giving when he had none to give. [7]
- Serious blame is not necessarily due to any serious disaster, and I cannot say that in this case any of the officers are deserving of serious blame. [7]
- I... for me... for the honor of the regiment I'd... Ah well, I'll show that in action, and for me the honor of the flag... Well, never mind, it's true I'm to blame, to blame all round. [2]
- He was to blame then--was he to blame now? [11]
- She could not blame Carnac, and she could not blame her husband, but the thing ate into her heart. [11]
More example sentences with the word blame in them
- I don't blame you--I suppose a man can't. [9]
- I cannot blame you, for I know it was not your fault. [14]
- I don't blame you for that, I guess something happened to make you believe it. [9]
- I don't blame you for it. [6]
- I cannot blame you any longer. [10]
- Don't you blame yo'self 'bout it. [5]
- To such I would say: You desire peace, and you blame me that we do not have it. [7]
- If Berthold Vorchtel would make up his mind to join me, it might be different, but he summoned the Council as a complainant, and if he is the one to overthrow the reeling structure, who can blame him? [10]
- This woman's hatred would lead her to destroy them rather than let them fall into the hands of her imperial enemy; and who can blame her? [10]
- Striking his horse with his long muscular legs as if it were to blame for everything, the colonel moved forward and ordered the second squadron, that in which Rostov was serving under Denisov, to return to the bridge. [2]
- If he doesn't wish to enter this heretic's nest himself, for which I don't blame him in the least, he need only send horses or the carriage for me. [10]
- Whoever is just will scarcely blame her for striking the audacious conqueror on the brow with the weaver's shuttle. [10]
- But if you will be reasonable and give up your suit, I shall not blame you a moment. [10]
- But the man who threw it was not to blame, for he was excited, and a person who is excited never can throw straight. [5]
- He then asked who the preacher was, and when I told him, he remarked that I was not so much to blame as he had supposed. [4]
- You see his white mustache and his head trying to get white (he is always trying to look like me--I don't blame him for that). [5]
- He knew that, whether he was to blame or not, the company owning the vessel would discharge him and make a devotion--to--passengers' safety advertisement out of it, and his chance to make a livelihood would be permanently gone. [5]
- And whilst they were so occupied Mr. Marmaduke entered, wholly frenzied from fright, and utterly oblivious to his own blame in the matter. [9]
- But the king watches over the laws, and guides the destiny cf this land, the king must blame you, nay perhaps punish you. [10]
- Warm-hearted as she was, she fully realized the debt of gratitude she owed to the lady Euryale; and she could not blame the high-priest, whom prudence certainly compelled to close his doors against her. [10]
- The only wrong was to David, whose grandfather had been even more to blame than his own father. [11]
- Some one somewhere was to blame, dear Cure. [11]
- He said we was representing prisoners; and prisoners don't care how they get a thing so they get it, and nobody don't blame them for it, either. [5]
- That poor town was not to blame, of course; yet we flushed hot with that old memory, and hoped there would be a misunderstanding here, for we dearly wanted to storm the place and burn it. [5]
- I said I was no doubt as much to blame as he was. [5]
- She thought she was doing right, and they might blame her or not, but her aunt would see that she could not permit any distinction to be set up between her and her husband, etc. [4]
- After four years' waiting, after a bitter quarrel in which both had been to blame, he was coming from the mining town of Selby to marry her to- morrow. [11]
- I will continue visiting him as long as the doctor says it is important that I should; but you must defend me, Lurida,--I know you can explain it all so that people will not blame me. [6]
- He don't blame us for what we do--he knows why we do it. [9]
- However, both of us are to blame, you and I. [5]
- Am I to understand that you don't blame an earl for being and remaining an earl? [5]
- I am only trying to find out how much I am to blame myself. [8]
- It was nothing to them that she was not to blame for what other people did. [5]
- And I fail to see why you should blame me for taking it when you yourself have taken it. [9]
- I said farewell to her cheerfully; but you, Georg, you--" "I shall take her out of the city, and then--you won't blame me for it--then I shall make my way through to the Beggars. [10]
- Talk about trying to cure warts with spunk-water such a blame fool way as that! [5]
- But you are to blame, your own self. [5]
- Tom was not to blame, sir. [9]
- But I was to blame, I oughtn't to have stayed, I knew all along that something would happen--something terrible that I hadn't any right to stay. [9]
- I was inclined to blame you once, at the capital that time, because it seemed to me that a man with all the advantages you have had and a mind like yours didn't have much excuse. [9]
- Could he be to blame toward her, or could her father, whom she knew loved her in spite of it all, be unjust? [2]
- I am not to blame that the Minister is vacillating, a coward, dense, dilatory, and has all bad qualities. [2]
- It is hard to blame her, for we know how she came by the tendency. [6]
- He believed himself to blame for this state of things, so the marriage took place. [5]
- How was she to blame for the treachery of another person, whom perhaps she did not even know? [10]
- He was not to blame for the manner natural to the Castilian. [10]
- Is the defence to blame for that? [7]
- And who was to blame for it? [2]
- You were not to blame altogether. [11]
- It is impossible to be sad when she is by, and she is devoted to me, and dreads my blame, and is always striving to win my approbation. [10]
- But while he thought this, and while he could justly blame Fulkerson for Lindau's presence at Dryfoos's dinner, which his zeal had brought about in spite of March's protests, still he could not rid himself of the reproach of uncandor with Lindau. [8]
- At first, and this was not usual, he spoke about himself in a strain of sincere humility, taking blame upon himself for his inability to do effectively the great service his Master had set him to do. [4]
- The blame for this untimely painting did not lie with the ship's officers, but with custom. [5]
- She saw that they had; and though herself and not her sister was to blame, she said: "Sophie, you are very indiscreet! [11]
- The soldiers squeezed themselves to make way for him, but again pressed on him so that they jammed his leg, and those nearest him were not to blame for they were themselves pressed still harder from behind. [2]
- I could blame thee for thus plighting thy troth, but I rejoice that thou regardest the oath as binding. [10]
- She thoroughly realized the wrong he had done Sonya, felt herself to blame toward her, and imagined that her wealth had influenced Nicholas' choice. [2]
- In any case the words ran along the line, and were carried up in a shout amid the crackling of the brushwood: "Where was the shame of it, Where was the blame of it, William Connor dear? [11]
- He never forgave the Spanish government for the murder of his father, nor do I blame him. [9]
- During the offering the priests sang prayers in a loud voice, enumerated the virtues of their king, and, that blame might in no case light on the head of their ruler, made his bad advisers responsible for every deadly sin committed in ignorance. [10]
- He couldn't stand the patriots, I'm not so sure that I blame him, either. [9]
- She looked at the money awhile with a steady rising resentment, then she burst out with: "Dad blame dat revival, I wisht it had 'a' be'n put off till tomorrow! [5]
- Jones, on about the middle of February, backed out altogether, laying the blame chiefly on Mackay and the others, who, he said, had decided not to invest. [5]
- Who can blame the ill-treated friend if it is less ready to serve us as the years go on? [10]
- I think, then, the fact that Judge Trumbull offered no amendment does not throw much blame upon him; and if it did, it does not reach the question of fact as to what Judge Douglas was doing. [7]
- Another portion of the blame rests with the public itself, which insists on being poisoned. [3]
- But Nahoumhe laid the blame on others, and the Saadat took his word for it, and, instead of a war, there came this expedition of his own. [11]
- You throw all the blame on me. [10]
- But she laid the blame not at his door; she rather shrank with inner bitterness from the cynical cruelty of nature, which, in deforming the body, with a merciless cruelty had deformed a noble mind. [11]
- The appreciation and the bestowal of praise and blame both rest on sympathy; and this emotion, as we have seen, is one of the most important elements of the social instincts. [1]
- And mind you the animles you carved on some of the Bone Ornaments is a blame sight too good for any primeaveal man that was ever fooled.--Varnum, Manager. [5]
- It may be that we are not to blame, either of us, that the practical gods are too strong. [9]
- What wonder, therefore, that ignorant and shallow persons laid the blame on her father of those peculiarities which were freely talked about,--of those darker tendencies which were hinted of in whispers? [6]
- The vague feeling, that he had not been entirely to blame, if she had not found perfect happiness by his side, alarmed her. [10]
- I need not tell you how we stand towards each other, and I will not blame him; for he is a just man, but in many things we can never meet half-way. [10]
- If for this task, a hideous one at best, they chose to pay themselves out of the treasures of the citizens, nobody would blame them. [10]
- And the neighbors talk about it, and lay all the blame on your uncle, of course, because he's a preacher and hain't got any business to quarrel. [5]
- Now, as Mahommed swam, he kept moaning to himself, cursing his father and his father's son, as though he himself were to blame for the crime which had been committed. [11]
- Uncle Jim seldom spoke to her, as he seldom spoke to anybody, but she had an inkling of the rancour in his heart, and many a time she put blame upon his shoulders to her husband, when some unavoidable friction came. [11]
- Could Washington himself speak, would he cast the blame of that sectionalism upon us, who sustain his policy, or upon you, who repudiate it? [7]
- When it occurred, some important State elections were near at hand, and you were in evident glee with the belief that, by charging the blame upon us, you could get an advantage of us in those elections. [7]
- You are not so wholly changed as you supposed, Frau Maria, and if I loyally remember the past, will you blame me for it? [10]
- If I become so inordinately grateful as to talk nonsense, you mustn't blame me. [9]
- Yet now she seemed not to know why she had not written, and to blame herself for neglect and forgetfulness. [11]
- As you will see when you have read the biographical notice, my sister cannot thank you herself; she is gone out of your sphere and mine, and human blame and praise are nothing to her now. [14]
- But there was scarce a horse in the stables what wouldn't lay back his ears at Mr. Grafton, and small blame to 'em, say I. [9]
- That does not satisfy you I see--and I can hardly blame you. [10]
- I offered to ring, but she said, "No, don't do that; it would only distress her to be confronted with her lapse, and would be a rebuke; she doesn't deserve that--she is not to blame for the tricks her memory serves her. [5]
- He did not renounce his opinions, but felt himself in some way to blame and wished to justify himself. [2]
- It would scarcely redound to his happiness, if the deed, for which my imprudence and his thoughtlessness are to blame, should be revenged on me. [10]
- When the weaver Rebecca was more eager to find room in the cart for the rude cradle in which her darling had died, than for the beautiful ebony chest inlaid with ivory an Egyptian had pawned to her husband, who could blame her? [10]
- She had indeed reason to blame him, for Sirona was the wife of another, she had never even noticed his admiration, and now, they all said, had committed a crime for the sake of a stranger. [10]
- Each one was ready to be taught by lips so sweet, and in guiding of fingers and words of praise or blame, there was right merry laughing and chatter and pastime. [10]
- The trick was planned in this crazy brain; I take the whole blame on my own shoulders. [10]
- You realize that perhaps there is a little blame on both sides. [5]
- Yes, she is only too glad to lay all the blame on you. [10]
- If I had only thought--' 'Well, it's all right, and I don't blame you any more, for you are young and thoughtless, and of course you couldn't foresee what an effect--' 'But oh, dear, I ought certainly to have known better. [5]
- Ours is the only blame from which he shrinks: we alone can dare to speak our opinion to him. [10]
- I blame no one--or only myself. [8]
- Iras had no one to blame save herself if she spoke the truth pitilessly in her presence. [10]
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