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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• With no clear path forward, the Republican party has resorted to name-calling and finger-pointing, much to the glee of of late-night TV writers.
  — Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 4 Oct. 2023
• While cloud seeding has been an easy culprit for internet finger-pointing as the flooding occurred, it is not known if cloud seeding played a role.
  — The Arizona Republic, 18 Apr. 2024
• But the vacuum of real information about what’s going on here has left a gap that fans have chosen to fill with a lot of finger-pointing and side-taking.
  — Aja Romano, Vox, 1 June 2024
• The outcome of the 2024 election has resulted in no shortage of Democratic finger-pointing.
  — Anthony D. Romero, Twin Cities, 6 Dec. 2024
• Desperate for answers on what went wrong on Election Day, finger-pointing among Democrats and media pundits has been swift.
  — Matt Lavietes, NBC News, 8 Nov. 2024
• In the weeks since Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss, there has been a lot of finger-pointing, and many theories about what the party must do going forward.
  — Maya King, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2024
• In the coming days and weeks, there'll be plenty of finger-pointing about what exactly led to Donald Trump's decisive victory in the election.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 7 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Jan 2025