How to Use recrimination in a Sentence

recrimination

noun
  • The discussion turned into a heated debate with recriminations flying back and forth.
  • The meeting ended with bitterness and recrimination.
  • When the news broke, of course, there were loud recriminations.
    — Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2023
  • The haze and shadows are a fog of time and recrimination not ready to lift.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2018
  • Larry’s lie caused a whirl of mistrust and recriminations among the friends.
    — Oli Coleman, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
  • The sound in his voice is not recrimination – much as that would be understandable.
    — Suzette Hackney, USA TODAY, 6 July 2023
  • In the months since, the recriminations and finger-pointing have risen like an angry tide.
    — Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024
  • At that moment when a small child is struggling to breathe, most parents have leaped far ahead of me in self-recrimination.
    — Rachel Pearson, The New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2021
  • There were reports of possible recriminations if the game did not go ahead.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Oct. 2019
  • The group has been the target of recriminations and sanctions, to no effect.
    — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
  • But the dominant mood of the capital was a mix of rage and recrimination.
    — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 1 June 2017
  • But the dominant mood of the capital was a mix of rage and recriminations.
    — Pamela Constable, Washington Post, 1 June 2017
  • In the worst, bickering over the flow is a source of constant tension and recrimination.
    — The Economist, 14 May 2020
  • That could change if the tensions spiral into a tit-for-tat cycle of recriminations.
    — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Trump’s moral compass seems to redirect him to a path of rocky recriminations and grievances.
    — Suzette Hackney, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2025
  • But Europe prolonged the agony with bitter recriminations over who should clean up the mess.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2018
  • But the whole light show of recrimination and adulation is designed to keep the brand attuned to its shoppers.
    — Fortune, 24 Sep. 2019
  • And the thing to do was just to tidy up the mess and move on with as little recrimination and backward-looking as possible.
    — David Frum, The Atlantic, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Knud Adams directs the screening of home movies and the dawning of self-recrimination.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
  • After several people emerge injured or dead, the stage is set for a small-town soap opera of guilt and recrimination.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 15 Nov. 2023
  • Guilt, anger, recrimination and hurtful words drift all around this family, like poplar tree fluff in June.
    — Leslie Felperin, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 May 2024
  • In private, much of the recriminations were among Democrats themselves.
    — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2023
  • Few writers are so skilled at studying themselves with such care and purpose — and without guilt or recrimination.
    — Emma Alpern, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2025
  • There were only whispered recriminations in the dark.
    — Chris Jones, The Atlantic, 26 May 2026
  • Peters would be free to continue her public recrimination of election clerks, again putting them in harm’s way.
    — Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The lack of public recrimination and the type of bullying disgust that gay athletes have endured for years.
    — Kurt Streeter, New York Times, 23 June 2021
  • The Asheville newspaper's story sparked recriminations over the handling of the case and the video leak.
    — Crimesider Staff, CBS News, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The basic plotlines of this story, the naming of names and the attendant recriminations, are by now well known.
    — Noah Isenberg, The New Republic, 3 July 2018
  • The instinct to duck recrimination and point the finger at others is baked into human nature.
    — John C. Moritz, Austin American Statesman, 1 Feb. 2026
  • The recriminations meant that by this week, there were only 10 active members of a body that ought to have 18.
    — Judith Vonberg, CNN, 4 May 2018

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