Sample Sentences for
scapegoat
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    You threw them off at the river. They can't admit it. ... So they're sniffing for a scapegoat to end things with a bang.  (source)
    scapegoat = someone to blame or punish
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    The people of Rome were sure you'd started the Great Fire, so you scapegoated the Christians.  (source)
    scapegoated = blamed
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    Martin didn't know it, but Deacon was setting him up to be a scapegoat.  (source)
    scapegoat = someone to blame
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    If the poison was his doing …. well, he will need a scapegoat.  (source)
    scapegoat = someone to blame
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    But they remained potential scapegoats, available when needed.  (source)
    scapegoats = people to blame
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    For residents of the block, support for Prop 187 wasn't a nativist reaction or scapegoating in tight economic times.  (source)
    scapegoating = blaming innocents
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    'People need a scapegoat,' he said.  (source)
    scapegoat = someone to blame
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    Scapegoats have been notoriously useful throughout history, and it must have been most gratifying for these Handmaids, so rigidly controlled at other times, to be able to tear a man apart with their bare hands every once in a while.†  (source)
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    The Rwandan genocide was a carefully planned case of scapegoating, launched by a government of the majority against a powerless minority.  (source)
    scapegoating = blaming someone for others' errors
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    Some roughhousing that got out of hand and he was the scapegoat.†  (source)
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    We are the billy goats and nanny goats and kids—all the scapegoats to appease this blindness.†  (source)
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    Like the scapegoat of the Bible, place society's ills on them, then "stone them" in absolution.†  (source)
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    They'll have a sharp eye for scapegoats.'†  (source)
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