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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Some of the arterials in New Haven and other cities are state roads, a situation that has sometimes led over the years to spats and finger-pointing over who was responsible for what on the roads.
  — Tom Condon, Hartford Courant, 22 Apr. 2024
• But when mistakes are made, everyone is finger-pointing.
  — Richard Lebovitz, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• Weather and war, finger-pointing and final farewells, each crisis brought questions about what was to blame — human folly or forces beyond our control?
  — Bishop Sand, Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2023
• The aftermath featured finger-pointing among the state’s Democratic Party leaders and growing calls to strip the state of its first-place status in the primary schedule.
  — Mabinty Quarshie, Washington Examiner, 9 Jan. 2024
• The bipartisan push comes amid partisan finger-pointing over the response to the disaster.
  — Natalie Andrews, WSJ, 1 Mar. 2023
• Meanwhile, various politicians have continued their finger-pointing-from-far that has been going on for the past couple weeks.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 23 Feb. 2023
• The circular finger-pointing if nothing else reveals some of the stress points and grievances within the Ohio Republican coalition.
  — cleveland, 11 Aug. 2023
• The collapse of the banks and the ensuing market turmoil have led to finger-pointing over whether a 2018 rollback of some of the financial regulations in the Dodd-Frank Act was responsible for the bank failures.
  — Alan Rappeport, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Mar. 2023
• And when one of those eleven people (and his dog) go missing without a trace, finger-pointing is inevitable, especially when everyone seems to hate each other to begin with.
  — Chris Vognar, Rolling Stone, 8 Oct. 2023
• The meeting at one point dissolved into a shouting and finger-pointing match between Henyard and Trustee Kiana Belcher, with some residents getting up from their chairs to shout their own comments.
  — Mike Nolan, Chicago Tribune, 7 May 2024

Last Updated: 24 Nov 2024