Even at times the country and the people became sacrificial goats to meet their greed and lust.

And nobody could guess how they would have reacted when their sacrificial goat had been released.

The whole thing was a staged performance: preparation of the sacrificial goat.

Merrivale could get the whole picture now: pressure from higher up and someone was being prepared as sacrificial goat.

It looks, old fellow, as if I'm to be the sacrificial goat.

You get the impression that's he's a sacrificial goat for something that went wrong, but you don't know what.

We, out on the frontier, we've been made sacrificial goats to incompetence.

If they want a sacrificial goat, let them pick on someone besides you.

They scattered, leaving only a few as sacrificial goats.

She deserved to be vindicated, but I had no idea where to seek a sacrificial goat.