scapegoat in English

noun
1
(in the Bible) a goat sent into the wilderness after the Jewish chief priest had symbolically laid the sins of the people upon it (Lev. 16).
Like the dogs, the scapegoats were, Strelan argues, central to the purificatory rites of Asia Minor where the churches addressed in Revelation are located.
verb
1
make a scapegoat of.
The Republicans scapegoated gays to win the election.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "scapegoat" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "scapegoat", or refer to the context using the word "scapegoat" in the English Dictionary.

1. Bella was just an excuse; a scapegoat.

2. Strike leaders tried to scapegoat foreign competitors.

3. I could easily have become a scapegoat.

4. Janice was to be made a scapegoat.

5. Therefore the Venetian world makes him their scapegoat.

6. The captain was made a scapegoat for the team's failure.

7. He has been made a scapegoat for the company's failures.

8. She was the scapegoat - Harriet, the destroyer of her family.

9. However, Asda accused the Prime Minister of looking for a scapegoat.

10. She believed she had been made a scapegoat for what happened.

11. The old curmudgeon found a new scapegoat and that let me out.

12. They'll be looking for a scapegoat if things don't go their way.

13. Too often she became a scapegoat for anger not strictly her due.

14. I would have been the scapegoat for anything bad they wrote afterwards.

15. God: The most popular scapegoat for our sins. Mark Twain 

16. He had been made the scapegoat for all the failures of the Luftwaffe.

17. He claimed there was a plot to make him a scapegoat for economic failures.

18. Alternatively the committee could have served as a scapegoat if Pomgol activities had failed completely.

19. He got what he wanted and left me in the lurch as a scapegoat.

20. I was made the scapegoat, but it was the others who started the fire.

21. Over a period of time, one employee might be singled out as a scapegoat.

22. I don't deserve to be made the scapegoat for a couple of bad results.

23. I do so because I believe she has been made a scapegoat for what happened.

24. And when a problem can not be brushed aside, then a scapegoat must be found.

25. Pan Am was delivered to the courts hamstrung, bankrupt and ripe for dispatch as a scapegoat.

26. I always warn my men that there's something of the scapegoat involved in the role of parish priest.

27. The Boro's second leading scorer felt he had been made a scapegoat for the home defeat by Watford.

28. Too late I realised he was desperate for a scapegoat, desperate to wreak his personal vengeance on Moira's killer.

29. It is convenient to Audaciously scapegoat an entire religion or an entire race and make the enemy visible and attackable

30. The captain was just a scapegoat. The real villains were the people in charge of the shipping company.

31. Middleton said he had not arrived in Jedburgh until after the crime had been committed and was being made the scapegoat.

32. It is convenient to Audaciously scapegoat an entire religion or an entire race and make the enemy visible and attackable

33. This suggests that Mr Lion had been deliberately singled out as a scapegoat and given no time to defend himself.

34. Loyal party followers viewed Deri as a scapegoat in the scandal for both Likud Party operatives and the legal establishment.

35. John Lahr made the point to me that Ken became a kind of scapegoat for the problems of the play.

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37. As do many familiar with the Khobar tragedy, the senior officer believes that President Clinton is making a scapegoat of Schwalier.

38. The Scapegoat appeared unharmed and was clearly visible through the curtain of fire, turning over and over as the Wheel rolled.

39. "Appeaser": examples and translations in context We have the caretaker, the Appeaser , the hero, the scapegoat, the lost child

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41. Its notes cannot drown out the bickering of governments and the constant hubbub of the nationalistic horse-trading bazaar, nor can it drown out Europe’s agonised wailing as governments make it a scapegoat whenever they need one – the very Europe that those governments themselves have created.

42. High falootin Aloofin' Has got you in it's ways And I can't let ya misjudge me that way Not that I care whatcha think of me But I hear every word that you say And I can't let ya misjudge me that way Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I can't take the blame You can find yourself a new scapegoat, but I ain't gonna play no game