How to Use point a/the finger at in a Sentence

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• And there is nobody else to fight with and point the finger at.
  — Bob Timmons, Star Tribune, 25 Mar. 2021
• At the end of the day there’s no sense or reason to point a finger at anybody.
  — James Crepea | The Oregonian/oregonlive, oregonlive, 5 Dec. 2020
• Still, nobody could point a finger at Green for that loss.
  — Jason Mastrodonato, The Mercury News, 28 Jan. 2024
• But the actress has an idea of who to point the finger at regarding the issue.
  — Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 5 Mar. 2024
• This year’s brutal heat wave has had many quick to point the finger at climate change.
  — Dallas News, 18 July 2022
• When an awards show bombs, the first person everyone wants to point a finger at is the host.
  — Judy Berman, Time, 1 Mar. 2021
• Mejia’s only way out of spending the rest of his life in prison, Martinez alleged, was to point the finger at him.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 15 June 2024
• And that decision, Troiano says, likely led the defense to point the finger at Claire for the murder.
  — Erin Moriarty, CBS News, 30 Mar. 2024
• The defense had tried to point the finger at Daybell's older brother, Alex Cox, who died in 2019, during the trial.
  — Brie Stimson, Fox News, 1 June 2024
• The Arizona Democratic Party was also quick to point the finger at Lake.
  — Libby Cathey, ABC News, 27 Oct. 2022
• Many people point the finger at the developers of these major GenAI tools.
  — Reuven Aronashvili, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• In some, people wanted to point a finger at someone or something.
  — Eric McQuade, The Atlantic, 26 Dec. 2020
• But throughout the trial, Buzbee continued to point the finger at Erickson, who was the first to barrel through the crosswalk.
  — Richard Winton, Los Angeles Times, 24 Feb. 2024
• Putin, in his first comments about the explosion, did not hesitate to point a finger at Ukraine on Sunday.
  — Megan Specia, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Oct. 2022
• Xavi refused to point the finger at Lahoz, who sent players off and gave out several yellow cards, for the stalemate.
  — Tom Sanderson, Forbes, 31 Dec. 2022
• With the docuseries seeming to point a finger at George Anthony, viewers may come away wondering whether the case could be reopened.
  — Time, 30 Nov. 2022
• Although Spain has refused to point a finger at Morocco, the dates the phones of Sánchez and Robles were hacked last year match up with a diplomatic crisis between the two countries.
  — Joseph Wilson, ajc, 5 May 2022
• Both sides point the finger at politics Democrats hammered their Republican peers’ reversal as a show of hypocrisy.
  — Riley Beggin, USA TODAY, 23 May 2024
• Studies there point the finger at tectonic forces along with cooling of a magma body at depth, so this combination might be a common occurrence in the Cascades.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 29 June 2016
• The Tesla boss, however, seemed to point the finger at his competitors as secretly being behind this weekend’s protests.
  — Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune Europe, 13 May 2024
• Attorney Jeffrey Coopersmith, who represents Balwani, declined to comment on the prospect that Holmes will point a finger at her ex-boyfriend.
  — Joel Rosenblatt, Bloomberg.com, 15 Sep. 2020
• But just months before the killings in 2016, the family behind the plot decided to kill everyone who could point the finger at them, the prosecutor said during opening statements of the first trial in the slayings.
  — John Seewer, ajc, 12 Sep. 2022
• But in the initial fog of uncertainty surrounding the blasts, some Iranian officials appeared to point the finger at Israel, stoking fears that the war in Gaza was expanding to a new front.
  — Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY, 10 Jan. 2024
• That would seem to point a finger at cable news outlets that fill air time with debates on particular issues, often pitting people with extreme points of view.
  — David Bauder, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Aug. 2022
• Vedernikov did not point the finger at Ukraine, but Moscow has previously blamed Kyiv for similar incidents.
  — Molly Hunter, NBC News, 27 May 2023
• The obituary — which ran last Thursday in the local newspaper, The Jefferson Jimplecute, and has been widely shared on social media — went on to also point a finger at people who refuse to wear face masks.
  — NBC News, 4 Aug. 2020
• Despite moving forward with Scheana, Sandoval wasn’t ready to take full responsibility for his actions and continued to point the finger at his friends when he was later confronted by Brock.
  — Stephanie Wenger, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024
• While many love to point the finger at this discrepancy to a lack of education, a Black woman with a doctoral degree earns a whopping one cent more (for a grand total of 65 cents) compared to a white man who also holds a doctoral degree.
  — Michelle Holder and Anne Price, Essence, 4 Sep. 2023
• Some economists blame supply chain deficiencies, while others point the finger at corporate greed.
  — Q.ai - Powering A Personal Wealth Movement, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
• Frustrated by what seems to be a wealth of more exciting options for sun protection overseas, skin-care-conscious Americans have been quick to point the finger at the F.D.A. for the delay in approving new active ingredients.
  — Sandra E. Garcia, New York Times, 12 Aug. 2023

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024