Synonym: whipping boy. Similar words: landscape, goat, boat, float, throat, goad, go all out, go about. Meaning: n. someone punished for the errors of others.
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1. I don't deserve to be made the scapegoat for a couple of bad results.
2. He has been made a scapegoat for the company's failures.
3. Strike leaders tried to scapegoat foreign competitors.
4. The captain was made a scapegoat for the team's failure.
5. I was made the scapegoat, but it was the others who started the fire.
6. She believed she had been made a scapegoat for what happened.
7. The old curmudgeon found a new scapegoat and that let me out.
8. God: The most popular scapegoat for our sins. Mark Twain 
9. Janice was to be made a scapegoat.
10. I could easily have become a scapegoat.
11. Bella was just an excuse; a scapegoat.
12. I would have been the scapegoat for anything bad they wrote afterwards.
13. It also causes lucrative publicity and a scapegoat,(sentencedict.com/scapegoat.html) but that's another story.
14. Alternatively the committee could have served as a scapegoat if Pomgol activities had failed completely.
15. Too often she became a scapegoat for anger not strictly her due.
16. The Scapegoat appeared unharmed and was clearly visible through the curtain of fire, turning over and over as the Wheel rolled.
17. Loyal party followers viewed Deri as a scapegoat in the scandal for both Likud Party operatives and the legal establishment.
18. They'll be looking for a scapegoat if things don't go their way.
19. The captain was just a scapegoat. The real villains were the people in charge of the shipping company.
20. However, Asda accused the Prime Minister of looking for a scapegoat.
21. He claimed there was a plot to make him a scapegoat for economic failures.
22. I do so because I believe she has been made a scapegoat for what happened.
23. As do many familiar with the Khobar tragedy, the senior officer believes that President Clinton is making a scapegoat of Schwalier.
24. Too late I realised he was desperate for a scapegoat, desperate to wreak his personal vengeance on Moira's killer.
25. I always warn my men that there's something of the scapegoat involved in the role of parish priest.
26. John Lahr made the point to me that Ken became a kind of scapegoat for the problems of the play.
27. But now, with unemployment touching 10 percent and rising, undeclared work and workers have become a political scapegoat.
28. This suggests that Mr Lion had been deliberately singled out as a scapegoat and given no time to defend himself.
29. The Boro's second leading scorer felt he had been made a scapegoat for the home defeat by Watford.
30. Middleton said he had not arrived in Jedburgh until after the crime had been committed and was being made the scapegoat.