framing someone

Grammar usage guide and real-world examples

On his way to the hearing on Sunday, Mr. Abd El Fattah told Reuters, "They committed a massacre, a horrible crime, and now they are working on framing someone else for it".

This would certainly seem worth mentioning when otherwise framing someone as an "independent-minded suburban voter".

Hankinson wondered why they "made Quinn a total sociopath" who went from "dancing on desks" to "framing someone for child endangerment" with great ease; VanDerWerff was also critical of these actions, and called Quinn's sabotage of Shelby's apartment "a move that takes a potentially good character, played by a fine actress, and just guts her".

When those indictments came down, another police officer from the area surprised me with his selective indignation over what the officers were alleged to have done: Framing someone like my client for burglary, he said, would be one thing, since the man was reputed to be a thief; framing him for murder, however, would be going too far.

She framed someone for murder there.

His lawyers wanted to prove that typewriters could be made exactly alike, in order to frame someone.

"The canal is one of my favourite places to run and photograph, this space looked like a nice place to frame someone in a silhouette against the wall maybe".

[Update 12/3/14: Apparently my concerns about the potential for cybervigilante public shaming to be used to frame someone were well founded.

But a self-important little shit who never once had to frame someone as a paedophile.

Lois suggests they frame someone else, but Peter professes his love for her and suggests they take Stewie to the hospital.

How do they manage to frame someone like Elizabeth Warren -- obviously working in the interests of ordinary citizens -- so that she reminds people of the Assistant Principle responsible for enforcing the dress code in High School?