How to Use recrimination in a Sentence

recrimination

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  • The discussion turned into a heated debate with recriminations flying back and forth.
  • None has yet passed, but the recriminations linger in Texas.
    — The Economist, 8 Mar. 2018
  • But Europe prolonged the agony with bitter recriminations over who should clean up the mess.
    — Peter S. Goodman, New York Times, 27 Jan. 2018
  • Get it right, and the project is off to a flying start. Screw it up, and down the line there are bound to be squabbles and recriminations.
    — Fortune Staff, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2018
  • That possible nudge toward progress came as both sides traded steamy recriminations over the matter.
    — Calvin Woodward, The Seattle Times, 11 Feb. 2018
  • 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 poisoning has plunged Britain and Russia into a war of recrimination and blame.
    — Washington Post, 17 Mar. 2018
  • Amid the recriminations, Schumer still says Democrats have come out stronger because of the government shutdown.
    — Michael Scherer, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2018
  • The literary world was set aflutter with recriminations and vicious gossip.
    — Min Jin Lee, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The losing faction resorts to blame and recrimination, while the winners embalm their victory in flawless amber.
    — Alexander Nazaryan, Newsweek, 28 Dec. 2017
  • There have been repeated attempts to hold talks between the two Koreas in recent years, but the efforts often end in recriminations and stalemate.
    — Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA TODAY, 3 Jan. 2018
  • Throughout the day, Adam had been sending Judy texts, the same litany of self-recrimination and regret that had become numbingly familiar.
    — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 22 Mar. 2018
  • As in swinging wildly between confidence and self-loathing, between ebullient belief and bitter recrimination.
    — Mary McNamara, Los Angeles Times, 28 June 2024
  • The haze and shadows are a fog of time and recrimination not ready to lift.
    — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2018
  • There will be no end to it anytime soon: the funerals, the recriminations, the threats, the fear, the assaults.
    — David Remnick, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2023
  • When the news broke, of course, there were loud recriminations.
    — Adam Kirsch, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2023
  • Meryl Streep dines out on the role of the cranky Aunt March, whose money comes with endless strands of guilt and recrimination.
    — Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 26 Nov. 2019
  • The air these days, though, is charged with recrimination.
    — Jeffrey Fleishman, latimes.com, 11 May 2018
  • The group has been the target of recriminations and sanctions, to no effect.
    — Scott Johnson, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 June 2023
  • 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
  • Knud Adams directs the screening of home movies and the dawning of self-recrimination.
    — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Larry’s lie caused a whirl of mistrust and recriminations among the friends.
    — Oli Coleman, Rolling Stone, 12 Apr. 2023
  • In the worst, bickering over the flow is a source of constant tension and recrimination.
    — The Economist, 14 May 2020
  • 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
  • Qatar had returned to the fold, and Arab countries have turned from years of recrimination and grievance to a new year of diplomacy.
    — Llewellyn King, Forbes, 21 Sep. 2021
  • But the whole light show of recrimination and adulation is designed to keep the brand attuned to its shoppers.
    — Fortune, 24 Sep. 2019
  • The whole thing becomes like a Jacuzzi of recrimination, where the jets are spraying in everyone’s faces and no one can relax.
    — Brian Moylan, Vulture, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Not only the rapes but all the sequelae: the agony, the bitterness, the self-recrimination, the asco, the desperate need to keep it hidden and silent.
    — Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 10 Apr. 2018
  • That’s a reprieve from the recrimination that Tedros faces from U.S. voices.
    — Joel Gehrke, Washington Examiner, 17 Apr. 2020
  • But for the population of voters likely to decide the election — a group that dislikes the choice and wants neither man to return to office — the cacophony of recrimination has done little to clarify the choice.
    — Marianne Levine, Washington Post, 24 June 2024

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