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
  • There was no finger-pointing in the Notre Dame locker room.
    — Tim Reynolds, Chicago Tribune, 11 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • The fires also seem to be setting a new standard for finger-pointing.
    — Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • There will be plenty of finger-pointing, and Harbaugh, Jackson and Andrews figure to bear the brunt of that.
    — Jeff Zrebiec, The Athletic, 20 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Still, the political finger-pointing has begun over whether more could have been done sooner.
    — Kirk Siegler, NPR, 12 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Have an open dialogue that isn’t about finger-pointing but about finding solutions.
    — Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times, 23 Jan. 2025

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