scapegoat|scapegoats in English

noun

person or group that is blamed for the sins or wrongdoings of others

Use "scapegoat|scapegoats" in a sentence

1. Two scapegoats would look like panic.

2. Bella was just an excuse; a scapegoat.

3. Strike leaders tried to scapegoat foreign competitors.

4. I could easily have become a scapegoat.

5. Janice was to be made a scapegoat.

6. Therefore the Venetian world makes him their scapegoat.

7. Scapegoats have been used throughout history to attempt to solve societal problems.

8. Hence the need to avoid mutual recriminations, facile accusations and scapegoats.

9. They were made the scapegoats for the misfire of the program.

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

11. They became scapegoats for crimes committed and were widely bruited as potential subversives.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

19. Demagogic governments sometimes paint foreigners as scapegoats, leading to nationalization or laws restricting foreign investment.

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

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

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

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

24. While they're suitably snotty, they don't hunt in packs - we're not talking Axi Rose's scapegoats here.

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